Difference between Undermines and Sabotage

UNDERMINES vs SABOTAGE: NOUN

A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.
Any surreptitious destruction of property or obstruction of activity by persons not known to be hostile; -- in war, such actions carried out behind enemy lines by agents or local sympathisers of the hostile power.
Malicious waste or destruction of an employer's property or injury to his interests by workmen during labor troubles.
Scamped work.
The deliberate attempt to damage, destroy, or hinder a cause or activity.
The deliberate destruction of property or obstruction of normal operations, as by civilians or enemy agents in a time of war.
A deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged

To deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful
Destroy property or hinder normal operations

Subverts, Distorts, Imperils, Hinders, Endangers, Erodes, Diminishes, Impedes, Jeopardizes, Cave, Countermine, Counteract, Sabotage, Subvert, Weaken

Undermining, Scupper, Subversion, Disrupting, Destroy, Scuttle, Derail, Thwart, Destabilize, Disrupt, Countermine, Counteract, Weaken, Undermine, Subvert

Mine, Damages, Reduced, Prejudice, Decreases, Commits, Compromises, Restricts, Hurts, Threatens, Cave, Countermine, Counteract, Subvert, Weaken

Tarnish, Undermining, Scupper, Disrupting, Destroy, Scuttle, Derail, Thwart, Destabilize, Disrupt, Countermine, Counteract, Weaken, Undermine, Subvert

There was balancing material that undermines your conclusions.
Overcriminalization itself undermines public respect for criminal law.
And it undermines all of our service values.
How tracking undermines race equity in desegregated schools.
Manichaean ideology undermines the rational exercise of power.
The routine use of shackles undermines these objectives.
It undermines what this military stands for and it undermines what the Marine Corps stands for when sexual assault takes place within.
This of course undermines all historical writing, and, obviously, undermines the possibility of getting facts from the Gospels.
When that trust is breached it undermines these relationships, and undermines our investigations and the confidence of victims, witnesses and their families.
When poor communication undermines trust it also undermines the possibilities for optimal treatment and outcomes.

The sabotage issue never should have been removed.
HE REVEALS NEW INFORMATION ABOUT THE SABOTAGE PLAN.
The Sabotage skills are useful to any character.
The airline called it a mistake, not sabotage.
Actually military hardware is relatively easy to sabotage.
Ridge learns his attempt to sabotage Quinn backfired.
Sabotage Detective Mode Scanner: Sabotage the Detective Mode Scanner to explode and incapacitate wielder when it locks onto your Detective Mode signal.
Space Shuttle Main the Orbiter Solid Rocket effort, the sabotage was of sabotage, processes prior the investigation progressed, contributors to eliminated from further consideration.
Ironically, the sleeve design that was intended to illustrate the idea of sabotage had instead become a victim of sabotage itself.
Simple Sabotage Field Manual, detailing sabotage techniques designed to demoralize the enemy.