Past tense of subvert
regular verb
The past tense of subvert is subverted. The past participle is also subverted.
Forms of subvert
| Base form (V1) | subvert /səbˈvɜːt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | subverted |
| Past participle (V3) | subverted |
| Present participle | subverting |
| Third person singular | subverts |
Subverted in a sentence
- The Sultan of Brunei effectively subverted a constitutional monarchy into an absolute monarchy by implementing a perpetual state of emergency.From the entry absolute monarchy
- Nature's waters are subverted to turn against its guests, complementing a xenofeminist commitment to an anti-naturalism that also entails dismantling nuclear domestic spaces.2020, Jennifer Cooke, “Feminist Manuals and Manifestos in the Twenty-first Century”, in Jennifer Cooke, editor, The New Feminist Literary…. From the entry antinaturalism
- Aristotelian philosophy and Christian theology emerged and subverted it for a number of centuries, but it made a comeback with the naturalist philosophers of the sixteenth century.2005, David Skrbina, Panpsychism in the West, MIT Press, →ISBN, pages 2–3. From the entry panpsychism
Meaning of subvert
- 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).
Questions about the past tense of subvert
- What is the past tense of subvert?
- The past tense of subvert is subverted.
- What is the past participle of subvert?
- The past participle of subvert is subverted.
- Is subvert a regular or irregular verb?
- Subvert is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: subvert (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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