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Subvert   /səbvˈərt/   Listen
verb
Subvert  v. t.  (past & past part. subverted; pres. part. subverting)  
1.
To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly. "These are his substance, sinews, arms, and strength, With which he yoketh your rebellious necks, Razeth your cities, and subverts your towns." "This would subvert the principles of all knowledge."
2.
To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
Synonyms: To overturn; overthrow; destroy; invert; reverse; extinguish.


Subvert  v. i.  To overthrow anything from the foundation; to be subversive. "They have a power given to them like that of the evil principle, to subvert and destroy."





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"Subvert" Quotes from Famous Books



... negative would be in effect a positive;—as if a soldier had a right to keep to himself whether he would, or would not, fight. Now, no one of these fundamentals can be rightfully attacked, except when the guardian of it has abused it to subvert one or more of the rest. The reason is, that the guardian, as a fluent, is less than the permanent which he is to guard. He is the temporary and mutable mean, and derives his whole value from the end. In short, as robbery is not high treason, so neither is every unjust act of ...
— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge
... reconciling the two parties: the rich could not persuade themselves to surrender their property; the poor were unwilling to die of hunger. According to Aristotle all revolutions have their origin in the distribution of wealth. "Every civil war," says Polybius, "is initiated to subvert wealth." ...
— History Of Ancient Civilization • Charles Seignobos
... subjugated a nation by winning the loyalties of the oppressed and downtrodden. The communists first win the support of liberal-intellectuals, and then use them to subvert and pervert all established mores and ideals and ...
— The Invisible Government • Dan Smoot
... to temporise. He was willing, he declared, to dismiss the foreign troops and send them out of the country and to maintain the ancient charters and liberties of the provinces, provided that nothing was done to subvert the king's authority or the Catholic faith. Finally, on February 12, a treaty called "The Perpetual Edict," a most inappropriate name, was signed, and the States-General acknowledged Don John as governor-general. The agreement was principally the work of Aerschot ...
— History of Holland • George Edmundson
... prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations." But by the law of 1842, contended the report, Congress had only partially exercised its power, and had attempted "to subvert the entire system of legislation adopted by the several States of the Union, and to compel them to conform to certain rules established by Congress for their government." Congress "may" make or alter such regulations, but "the right to change State laws or to enact others which ...
— Stephen A. Douglas - A Study in American Politics • Allen Johnson


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