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sabotages 1 of 2

noun

plural of sabotage
as in destructions
the act of destroying or damaging something deliberately so that it does not work correctly Angry workers were responsible for the sabotage of the machines. Officials have not yet ruled out sabotage as a possible cause of the crash.

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verb

present tense third-person singular of sabotage
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as in thwarts

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as in destroys

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sabotages
  1. ruins
  2. thwarts
  3. destroys
  4. frustrates
  5. annihilates
  6. restrains
  7. demolishes
  8. foils
Noun
  • As the lake dries, the ruins of one of 11 villages that had been inundated by the reservoir have emerged, as alarm grows over the need for alternative water supplies for the city of 42 million.
    — EDNA TARIGAN, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
  • The vast majority of Palestinians continue to live in tent camps or ruins of their former homes.
    — Matthew Lee, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of ruins
Verb
  • Heath pilots a fighter jet, deploys bombs in foreign countries, and thwarts cyberattacks, all after remarkably cursory and casual conversations with a government official.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Another tactic is treating ship hulls with special paint that thwarts unwanted hitchhikers from latching on.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 July 2026
Definition of thwarts
Verb
  • How IonQ cracked error correction Since making measurements of a qubit destroys its quantum state, researchers can only gather information about their syndromes to know if the qubit has accumulated an error or not.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026
  • This natural inversion destroys leadership, fractures relationships and halts self-improvement.
    — Brendan Keegan, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of destroys
Verb
  • Maybe that is why this political language frustrates me so much.
    — Angelette C. Aviles, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2026
  • One thing that Davidson said frustrates him about social media is people who aren’t personally connected to the tragedy often use it as a meme.
    — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of frustrates
Verb
  • And that’s a lot of energy to shed as a vehicle comes blaring back into Earth’s thick atmosphere, a process that typically annihilates objects returning from space unless they are precisely designed to survive the trip.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
  • Matter is so dominant in our universe that any antimatter typically encounters matter quickly and annihilates.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2026
Definition of annihilates
Verb
  • Farther down, the levee that restrains the rivers is a low line of trees into the horizon.
    — Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The constitutional exclusionary rule restrains government, not private parties, so the Fourth Amendment generally does not bar evidence wrongfully obtained by a private actor.
    — Jihun Joun, The Conversation, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of restrains
Verb
  • An $8,000 Ryvid Anthem or a $10,000 Maeving RM1S will deliver broadly similar urban usability, while the $12,500 Zero FXE absolutely demolishes it on power-per-dollar.
    — Utkarsh Sood June 12, New Atlas, 12 June 2026
  • The latest filing demolishes the timeworn claim that DOGE was infiltrated into Social Security in order to responsibly ferret out fraud and overspending.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
Definition of demolishes
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  • Xander literally split into his good and bad qualities, Faith and Buffy, already foils, swapping bodies, the Buffybot, Joan the Vampire Slayer, and so on—and doubling is of course a classic literary trope.
    — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2026
  • At their elite school the students play a game like soccer during which the boys have the ball, but the witches can interfere by using their powers to make the field icy or create a wind that foils the opposition team.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 15 Feb. 2026
Definition of foils
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