subvertest

Verb

subvert (third-person singular simple present subverts, present participle subverting, simple past and past participle subverted)

1. (transitive) 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

2. (transitive) 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

3. (transitive) To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).

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