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sabotage (verb), sabotages; sabotaged; sabotaging
1. To incapacitate, to undermine, to destroy, or to subvert: The bad weather sabotaged Larry's vacation plans for the summer.

Frank is determined to sabotage a business deal because it would have resulted in the loss of too many jobs at his company.

2. Etymology: from French saboter, "to execute poorly."
To wreck or to damage some activity.
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