subverted
subverted is the simple past and past participle of subvert.
Meaning of subvert
Verb
subvert (third-person singular simple present subverts, present participle subverting, simple past and past participle subverted)
- To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
- He […] razeth your cities, and subverts your towns.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- Synonyms:
- devastate, erase, wreck, destroy, annihilate, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out
- To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
- The oppressive regime stays in power only as long as they manage to subvert the will of the people.
- Synonyms:
- corrupt, seduce, suborn, adulterate, debauch, demoralize, detort, file, immoralize, lead astray
- To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
Questions about subverted
- What is subverted the simple past and past participle of?
- Subverted is the simple past and past participle of subvert.
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