to sab
- verb
- UK
- Activists plan to sab the construction project to raise awareness about environmental issues.
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Watch on YouTubeIn my case that will stymie and self sabotage by putting into the calendar.
- In my case that will stymie and self sabotage by putting into the calendar.
- I didn't self sabotage and I was the least distracted.
- So I think that people self sabotage just to like prove their subconscious mind right.
- But I'm telling you, I'm not self sabotaging.
- Maybe the reason you self sabotage is because it allows you to predict the future.
Examples
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You're even trying to sabotage other people's campaigns, including mine.
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Their mission is to sabotage their own team's cooking without being caught.
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You have some actors in the group whose primary objective is to sabotage the group, and they're happy with that.
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The group decided to sab the event in order to protest the company's unethical practices.
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In an effort to draw attention to their cause, they chose to sab the advertisement campaign.
Synonyms
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3.2
To show strong disagreement in public, often by joining a march or strike
To try on purpose to make someone or something fail
To stop a hunt or other event as a protest to protect animals
Antonyms
How Damaging
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sab is used as a verb from sabotage, which once suggested putting a sabot, a 'wooden shoe', into a machine to stop it. So to sab something is to 'damage' or block it on purpose to stop it working.