sabotage
sabotage.01 - wreck clandestinely
SABOTAGE-V NOTES: No Vncls. Beautiful etymology behind this. During the Industrial Revolution inFrance, disgruntled (and displaced) workers would toss their woodenshoes, called "sabot"s, into the machinery of the new factories,naturally causing the machinery to break. This kind of willfuldestruction came to be called sabot-age. (from sabotage.01-v)Aliases:
sabotage (v.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: saboteur
ARG1-PPT: thing wrecked
ARG2-MNR: instrument
ARG1-PPT: thing wrecked
ARG2-MNR: instrument
just transitive
Guerrilla leaders said
PretoriaARG0
was attempting to sabotagerel
next week 's elections in NamibiaARG1
.