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SABOTEUR

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SABOTEUR (noun)
  The noun SABOTEUR has 2 senses:

1. someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
2. a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader

  Familiarity information: SABOTEUR used as a noun is rare.


English dictionary: Word details


SABOTEUR (noun)


Sense 1saboteur [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

Someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

diversionist; saboteur; wrecker

Hypernyms ("saboteur" is a kind of...):

destroyer; ruiner; undoer; uprooter; waster (a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "saboteur"):

sleeper (a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal)


Sense 2saboteur [BACK TO TOP]

Meaning:

A member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fifth columnist; saboteur

Hypernyms ("saboteur" is a kind of...):

traitor; treasonist (someone who betrays his country by committing treason)

Holonyms ("saboteur" is a member of...):

fifth column; Trojan horse (a subversive group that supports the enemy and engages in espionage or sabotage; an enemy in your midst)


English Proverbs
"Starve a fever, feed a cold."
(English proverb)
"Drop by drop - a whole lake becomes."
(Bulgarian proverb)
"He who walks slowly arrives first."
(Arabic proverb)
"The vine says to the vintager: "Make me poor, and I will make you rich.""
(Corsican proverb)


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