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sab\u2027o\u2027tage <\/strong>1<\/strong> \/ \u02c8s\u00e6b\u0259t\u0251\u02d0\u0292 \/ verb<\/em> [ transitive ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 <\/strong>to secretly damage or destroy equipment, vehicles etc that belong to an enemy or opponent, so that they cannot be used :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>Every single plane had been sabotaged.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 <\/strong>to deliberately spoil someone\u2019s plans because you do not want them to succeed :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>Demonstrators have sabotaged the conference.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

THESAURUS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

damage<\/strong> to cause physical harm to something or someone, or have a bad effect on them : Several buildings were damaged by the earthquake. <\/em>| The other car wasn\u2019t damaged. <\/em>| The scandal could damage his career.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

harm<\/strong> to have a bad effect on something : They use chemicals that will harm the environment. <\/em>| The oil crisis could harm the economy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

spoil<\/strong> to have a bad effect on something and make it less successful, enjoyable, useful etc : We didn\u2019t let the rain spoil our holiday. <\/em>| Local people say the new buildings will spoil the view.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

vandalize<\/strong> to deliberately damage buildings, vehicles, or public property : All the public telephones in the area had been vandalized.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

sabotage<\/strong> \/ \u02c8s\u00e6b\u0259t\u0251\u02d0\u0292 \/ to secretly damage machines or equipment so that they cannot be used, especially in order to harm an enemy : There is evidence that the airplane was sabotaged.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

tamper with something<\/strong> to deliberately and illegally damage or change a part of something in order to prevent it from working properly : The car\u2019s brakes had been tampered with.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

desecrate<\/strong> to damage a church or other holy place : The church had been desecrated by vandals.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

deface<\/strong> \/ d\u026a\u02c8fe\u026as \/ to deliberately spoil the appearance of something by writing on it, spraying paint on it etc : Someone had defaced the statue and painted it bright orange.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

sabotage <\/strong>2 <\/strong>noun<\/em> [ uncountable ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

deliberate damage that is done to equipment, vehicles etc in order to prevent an enemy or opponent from using them :<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>The terrorists were planning acts of sabotage<\/em><\/strong> to destabilize the country.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>industrial sabotage<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

sab\u2027o\u2027tage 1 \/ \u02c8s\u00e6b\u0259t\u0251\u02d0\u0292 \/ verb [ transitive ] 1 to secretly damage or destroy equipment, vehicles etc that belong to an enemy or opponent, so that they cannot be used : Every single plane had been sabotaged. 2 to deliberately spoil someone\u2019s plans because you do not want them to succeed : Demonstrators have …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,13],"tags":[18,19,8],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-ielts","category-vocabulary","tag-mindset-for-ielts-level2","tag-page71","tag-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishline.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}