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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 participlesubverting
Third person singularsubverts

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

  1. verb To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
  2. verb To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
  3. verb To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).

Full definition of subvert

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.

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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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