Synonyms of the word

sabotage

• n. A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.
• n. (military) An act or acts with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the national defense of a…
• v. to deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful.

counteract

• v. To have a contrary or opposing effect or force on.
• v. To deliberately act in opposition to, to thwart or frustrate.

countermine

• n. A mine used by defenders to intercept an enemy mine or tunnel.
• n. An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
• n. A stratagem or plot by which another stratagem or project is defeated.
• v. To plot opposition; to frustrate the initiatives of another.

destruction

• n. The act of destroying.
• n. The results of a destructive event.

devastation

• n. The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
• n. (law) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or administrator; devastavit.

disobey

• v. (transitive) To refuse or (intentionally) fail to obey an order of (somebody).
• v. (intransitive) To refuse or (intentionally) fail to obey.

subvert

• v. (transitive) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
• v. (transitive) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
• v. (transitive) To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
• n. An advertisement created by subvertising.

undermine

• v. To dig underneath (something), to make a passage or for destructive or military purposes; to sap.
• v. (figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.

weaken

• v. (transitive) To make weaker.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker.