Subvert

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  • transitive verb. To overthrow or destroy (a government or an established order or authority). synonym: overthrow.
  • transitive verb. To undermine, overturn, or render ineffective (a rule or an established notion, such as a stereotype, for example).
  • transitive verb. To cause to serve a purpose other than the original or established one; commandeer or redirect.
  • transitive verb. To undermine, mislead, or betray.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To overthrow; overturn; ruin utterly; destroy.
  • Synonyms Overthrow, Invert, etc. See overturn.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To overthrow anything from the foundation; to be subversive.
  • transitive verb. To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
  • transitive verb. To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An advertisement created by subvertising.
  • verb. To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
  • verb. To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
  • verb. To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. cause the downfall of; of rulers
  • verb. destroy property or hinder normal operations
  • verb. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
  • verb. destroy completely