Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to sabotage
Participle: sabotaged
Gerund: sabotaging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | sabotage |
| you | sabotage |
| he;she;it | sabotages |
| we | sabotage |
| you | sabotage |
| they | sabotage |
Perfect
| I | have sabotaged |
| you | have sabotaged |
| he;she;it | has sabotaged |
| we | have sabotaged |
| you | have sabotaged |
| they | have sabotaged |
Past
| I | sabotaged |
| you | sabotaged |
| he;she;it | sabotaged |
| we | sabotaged |
| you | sabotaged |
| they | sabotaged |
Pluperfect
| I | had sabotaged |
| you | had sabotaged |
| he;she;it | had sabotaged |
| we | had sabotaged |
| you | had sabotaged |
| they | had sabotaged |
Future
| I | will sabotage |
| you | will sabotage |
| he;she;it | will sabotage |
| we | will sabotage |
| you | will sabotage |
| they | will sabotage |
Future Perfect
| I | will have sabotaged |
| you | will have sabotaged |
| he;she;it | will have sabotaged |
| we | will have sabotaged |
| you | will have sabotaged |
| they | will have sabotaged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | sabotage |
| you | sabotage |
| he;she;it | sabotage |
| we | sabotage |
| you | sabotage |
| they | sabotage |
Perfect
| I | have sabotaged |
| you | have sabotaged |
| he;she;it | have sabotaged |
| we | have sabotaged |
| you | have sabotaged |
| they | have sabotaged |
Imperfect
| I | sabotaged |
| you | sabotaged |
| he;she;it | sabotaged |
| we | sabotaged |
| you | sabotaged |
| they | sabotaged |
Pluperfect
| I | had sabotaged |
| you | had sabotaged |
| he;she;it | had sabotaged |
| we | had sabotaged |
| you | had sabotaged |
| they | had sabotaged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would sabotage |
| you | would sabotage |
| he;she;it | would sabotage |
| we | would sabotage |
| you | would sabotage |
| they | would sabotage |
Perfect
| I | would have sabotaged |
| you | would have sabotaged |
| he;she;it | would have sabotaged |
| we | would have sabotaged |
| you | would have sabotaged |
| they | would have sabotaged |
Imperative
| you | sabotage |
| we | Let's sabotage |
| you | sabotage |
Verbs conjugated like 'sabotage'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'sabotage'
cabbage,
saltate,
sanitate,
sausage,
savage,
stage,
storage,
subtag,
vantage,
abase,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French sabotage.
Sample Sentences
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The railway line had been sabotaged by enemy commandos.
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Our plans were sabotaged.
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The Hedjaz Railway is best known for its connections to T. E. Lawrence, whose fame as "El Orens", the railway wrecker, spread quickly throughout Arabia. He arrived at Yenbo in December, 1916, and immediately started his campaign to sabotage the railway, but to keep it sufficiently in working order to allow supplies to reach Medina. [1956 March, R. C. Blaker, “The Hedjaz Railway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 166-167:]
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Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to issue a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history. [2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian:]
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The only amusing highlight was Gudgeon having managed to exploit U.S. codebreaking efforts to ambush and destroy the submarine I-173, albeit not for the lack of the Mark 14's trying to sabotage the effort, as the torpedo that had hit the sub had refused to detonate; it seemed, however, that the car-crash levels of kinetic energy involved in the dud simply ramming the sub had nonetheless done enough to fatally damage it. [2021 December 29, Drachinifel, 21:03 from the start, in The USN Pacific Submarine Campaign - The Dark Year (Dec'41 - Dec'42), archived from the original on 19 Jul 2022:]