sabotear
/saboteˈaɾ/ · B2 · verb
to sabotage
🔧🚫 sabotear = from sabot (wooden shoe) + -ear; clogs clumping through machinery
Comes from French saboter, from sabot, a wooden shoe. Workers were said to have clacked or kicked their clogs into machines to wreck them, so sabotear means to deliberately damage or obstruct. The Spanish ending -ear makes it a verb.