sabotaging

The word “sabotaging” has 4 syllables: sa-bo-tag-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈsæ.bə.tɑʒɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for sabotaging?

In the thesaurus, “sabotaging” has 114 synonyms and 35 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for sabotaging along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for sabotaging

  • alienated
  • anarchistic
  • annihilating
  • arresting
  • attacking
  • baffling
  • banging up
  • bellicose
  • bottlenecking
  • braking
  • breaking
  • checking
  • constraining
  • contumacious
  • curbing
  • damaging
  • decelerating
  • defacing
  • defiant
  • demolishing
  • depredating
  • desecrating
  • despoiling
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • difficult
  • disaffected
  • disloyal
  • disobedient
  • disorderly
  • dissident
  • encumbering
  • factious
  • foiling
  • fractious
  • frustrating
  • graffitiing
  • graffiting
  • halting
  • hampering
  • handicapping
  • harming
  • hindering
  • hobbling
  • holding back
  • holding up
  • hurting
  • iconoclastic
  • impairing
  • impeding
  • incorrigible
  • individualistic
  • inhibiting
  • insurgent
  • insurrectionary
  • intractable
  • looting
  • marauding
  • marring
  • mutinous
  • obstinate
  • obstructing
  • pillaging
  • plundering
  • pugnacious
  • quarrelsome
  • radical
  • ransacking
  • ravaging
  • ravening
  • razing
  • rebel
  • recalcitrant
  • refractory
  • reining
  • resistant
  • restless
  • restraining
  • retarding
  • revolutionary
  • rioting
  • riotous
  • ruining
  • sacking
  • scourging
  • seditious
  • setting back
  • shattering
  • slackening
  • slowing
  • smashing
  • spoiling
  • spoliating
  • stopping
  • tagging
  • tearing down
  • threatening
  • thwarting
  • tieing up
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • trashing
  • treasonable
  • turbulent
  • tying up
  • ungovernable
  • unruly
  • vandalizing
  • violating
  • warring
  • wasting
  • wiping out
  • wracking
  • wrecking

Antonyms for sabotaging

Meanings of sabotaging

  • verb
    1. To deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful.

Example Sentences

  • The spy was caught red-handed sabotaging the rival organization's operations.
  • Accusations of political rivals sabotaging campaign efforts led to increased tensions.
  • The disgruntled employee was terminated for intentionally sabotaging company equipment.
  • Environmental activists accused the corporation of sabotaging conservation efforts.
  • The athlete faced serious consequences for allegedly sabotaging a fellow competitor's equipment.

On this page you'll find 149 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to sabotaging, such as: accelerating, advancing, aiding, alienated, anarchistic, annihilating, arresting.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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handicapping

  • arresting
  • baffling
  • balking
  • barricading
  • binding
  • blockading
  • blocking
  • braking
  • chaining
  • checking
  • choking
  • clogging
  • confining
  • constraining
  • cramping
  • curbing
  • delaying
  • derailing
  • disrupting
  • embarrassing
  • encumbering
  • fettering
  • foiling
  • frustrating
  • giving a hard time
  • haltering
  • hampering
  • handcuffing
  • hindering
  • hobbling
  • hog-tying
  • holding back
  • holding up
  • impeding
  • inhibiting
  • leashing
  • manacling
  • miring
  • muzzling
  • obstructing
  • reining
  • repressing
  • restraining
  • retaining
  • retarding
  • roadblocking
  • sabotaging
  • shackling
  • short-circuiting
  • smothering
  • stifling
  • strangling
  • stumping
  • stymieing
  • suffocating
  • suppressing
  • tethering
  • thwarting
  • tieing
  • tieing up
  • trammeling
  • trammelling
  • tying
  • tying up

decelerating

  • ambling
  • arresting
  • baffling
  • bottlenecking
  • braking
  • checking
  • constraining
  • crawling
  • creeping
  • curbing
  • dallying
  • dawdling
  • deliberate
  • dilatory
  • dillydallying
  • dragging
  • encumbering
  • filibustering
  • foiling
  • frustrating
  • halting
  • hampering
  • handicapping
  • heavy-footed
  • hindering
  • hobbling
  • holding back
  • holding up
  • impeding
  • inactive
  • inching
  • inert
  • inhibiting
  • laggard
  • lagging
  • languid
  • leisurely
  • lethargic
  • lingering
  • loafing
  • loitering
  • lounging
  • measured
  • obstructing
  • plodding
  • pokey
  • poking
  • poky
  • procrastinating
  • reining
  • restraining
  • retarding
  • sabotaging
  • setting back
  • shuffling
  • slackening
  • slow
  • slow-footed
  • slowing
  • sluggish
  • snail-paced
  • snaillike
  • stalling
  • stopping
  • strolling
  • tardy
  • tarrying
  • thwarting
  • tieing up
  • tying up
  • unhurried

hampering

  • affection
  • arrest
  • arresting
  • attachment
  • background
  • backseat driving
  • baffling
  • balking
  • barging in
  • barricading
  • barring
  • binding
  • blockading
  • blocking
  • bond
  • braking
  • cement
  • chaining
  • checking
  • choking
  • clashing
  • clogging
  • confining
  • conflict
  • connection
  • constraining
  • constraint
  • cord
  • cramping
  • curb
  • curbing
  • delaying
  • derailing
  • deterrent
  • deterring
  • discouraging
  • disrupting
  • embarrassing
  • encumbering
  • fastening
  • fetter
  • fettering
  • foiling
  • fondness
  • frustrating
  • giving a hard time
  • haltering
  • handcuff
  • handcuffing
  • handicapping
  • hindering
  • hindrance
  • hobbling
  • hog-tying
  • holding back
  • holding up
  • hookup
  • impeding
  • inhibiting
  • intermeddling
  • interposition
  • intervention
  • intrusion
  • joint
  • knot
  • leashing
  • ligature
  • limit
  • limitation
  • link
  • linkage
  • linkup
  • manacle
  • manacling
  • meddlesomeness
  • miring
  • muzzling
  • negating
  • neutralizing
  • nexus
  • nullifying
  • obstructing
  • obstruction
  • opposition
  • precautionary
  • preventative
  • preventive
  • prophylactic
  • prying
  • reining
  • repressing
  • resistance
  • restraining
  • restraint
  • restriction
  • retaining
  • retardant
  • retardation
  • retarding
  • roadblocking
  • sabotaging
  • shackle
  • shackling
  • short-circuiting
  • smothering
  • stalling
  • stifling
  • strangling
  • stumping
  • stymieing
  • suffocating
  • suppressing
  • sympathy
  • tackling
  • tampering
  • tethering
  • thwarting
  • tie
  • tie-up
  • tieing
  • tieing up
  • trammel
  • trammeling
  • trammelling
  • trespassing
  • tying
  • tying up
  • union
  • yoke

banging up

  • annihilating
  • breaking
  • damaging
  • defacing
  • demolishing
  • depredating
  • desecrating
  • despoiling
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • graffitiing
  • graffiting
  • harming
  • hurting
  • impairing
  • looting
  • marauding
  • marring
  • pillaging
  • plundering
  • ransacking
  • ravaging
  • ravening
  • razing
  • ruining
  • sabotaging
  • sacking
  • scourging
  • shattering
  • smashing
  • spoiling
  • spoliating
  • tagging
  • tearing down
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • trashing
  • vandalizing
  • violating
  • wasting
  • wiping out
  • wracking
  • wrecking

vandalizing

  • annihilating
  • banging up
  • breaking
  • damaging
  • defacing
  • demolishing
  • depredating
  • desecrating
  • despoiling
  • destroying
  • devastating
  • graffitiing
  • graffiting
  • harming
  • hurting
  • impairing
  • looting
  • marauding
  • marring
  • pillaging
  • plundering
  • ransacking
  • ravaging
  • ravening
  • razing
  • ruining
  • sabotaging
  • sacking
  • scourging
  • shattering
  • smashing
  • spoiling
  • spoliating
  • tagging
  • tearing down
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • trashing
  • violating
  • wasting
  • wiping out
  • wracking
  • wrecking

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