sabotage
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sabotage /ˈsabətɑːʒ/
▶verb deliberately destroy or obstruct, especially for political or military advantage. ▶noun the action of sabotaging.
word history: Sabotage comes from the French verb saboter, which originally meant ‘kick or strike with sabots’, a sabot being a heavy wooden clog. Later it came to mean ‘wilfully destroy’ and was first used in English in the early 20th century, in reference to the wilful destruction by a workforce of their employer's property during a strike.
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