Synonyms of subvert
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Another word for subvert is eliminate. Other synonyms of subvert are ruin, harry, corrupt, disperse and eradicate.
Synonyms and similar words for subvert
verbTo overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
- devastate
- erase
- wreck
- destroy
- annihilate
- aerosolize
- atomize
- bewreckTo wreck completely; ruin; destroy.
- blot out
- blotto
- dashTo ruin; to destroy.
- decompose
- demolish
- desolateTo devastate or lay waste somewhere.
- diffuse
- disintegrate
- disperseTo break up and disappear; to dissipate.
- dissolve
- eliminateTo completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
- eradicateTo destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
- exterminate
- extinguishTo put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
- extirpateTo destroy completely; to annihilate.
- fuck vulgarTo break, to destroy.
- harryTo strip, lay waste, ravage.
- jazz
- lay wasteTo completely destroy, especially of a geographical area or region.
- level
- liquidateTo kill (someone), usually violently, and especially for some ideological or political aim; to assassinate, to murder...
- nukeTo destroy or erase completely.
- obliterateTo destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.
- overturn
- pull down
- pulverizeAmerican and Oxford British spelling of pulverise.
- razeTo completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from...
- ravageTo devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.
- remove
- ruinTo destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
- ruinate
- stamp out
- total
- unbreed figuratively
- unexist
- unmakeTo destroy or take apart; to cause (a made article) to lose its nature.
- uprootTo destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
- waste
- wipe out
- wipe off
- benothing obsolete, rareTo reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- fordo obsolete
- overthrow rareTo bring about the downfall of (a government, etc.), especially by force; to usurp.
- race obsoleteTo level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
- ravel obsoleteTo destroy or ruin (something), like unravelling fabric.
verbTo pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
- corruptTo make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
- seduceTo beguile or lure (someone) away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct; to lead astray.
- subornTo induce (someone) to commit an unlawful or malicious act, especially in a corrupt manner.
- adulterateTo corrupt, to debase (someone or something).
- debauchTo morally corrupt (someone); to seduce.
- fileTo corrupt.
- immoralizeTo corrupt; to make immoral.
- lead astrayTo influence (someone) to have bad habits or to behave improperly or illegally.
- pervert
- polluteTo corrupt or profane.
- sophisticate figurativelyTo alter and make impure (something) by mixing it with some foreign or inferior substance, especially with an intention...
- unmoralizeTo make immoral or corrupt.
- vitiateTo debase or morally corrupt.
- warpTo deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias.
- demoralize datedTo erode the moral adherence of; to corrupt.
- detort datedTo pervert.
- preposterate obsoleteTo pervert or disgrace.
- tamper datedTo meddle (with something) in order to corrupt or pervert it.
nounAn advertisement created by subvertising.
- subvertisementAn individual piece of subvertising.
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).
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