Sabotage vs Obstruct - What's the difference?
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A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.
(military) An act or acts with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the national defense of a country by willfully injuring or destroying, or attempting to injure or destroy, any national defense or war materiel, premises, or utilities, to include human and natural resourcesJP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms ..
to deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful
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To block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle. See Synonyms at block.
To impede, retard, or interfere with; hinder: obstructed my progress.
To get in the way of so as to hide from sight.
As verbs the difference between sabotage and obstruct
is that sabotage is to deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful while obstruct is to block or fill (a passage) with obstacles or an obstacle. See Synonyms at block.As a noun sabotage
is a deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.sabotage
English
(wikipedia sabotage)Noun
(-)Verb
(sabotag)- The railway line had been sabotaged by enemy commandos
Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
- Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to issue a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.