sabotage

Other forms of sabotage

plural

sabotages·

past tense

sabotaged·

present participle

sabotaging·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sabotage

What does sabotage mean?

sabotage means "a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sabotage?

sabotage has 3 syllables: sab-o-tage. The stress falls on "sab". In IPA it is /ˈsæbəˌtɑʒ/.

What is another word for sabotage?

Close synonyms include undermine, countermine, counteract, subvert, weaken. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sabotage a common word?

sabotage is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sabotage?

2 words rhyme with sabotage. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.