0 to try to destroy or damage something, especially an established political system:
The rebel army is attempting to subvert the government.
Our best intentions are sometimes subverted by our natural tendency to selfishness.
The enthusiastic accumulation by fans of an unending suite of related images both echoes and subverts the mass mechanical reproduction of the modern celebrity image.
In this manner, the use of an alien aesthetic functions analogously to a camp aesthetic that subverts claim to artistic privilege or autonomy.
However, during other episodes or parts thereof the performers intentionally subverted the 'seriousness and compulsion for precision', as though to ridicule or laugh at themselves.
Each had been ' subverted ' by the corrosive spread of irreligious philosophies within its elites.
The veil of ignorance is a useful theoretical tool because bias toward oneself can potentially subvert understanding of social justice.
Covert channels such as power consumption subvert the assumptions on which high level abstractions are based.
What should finally be stressed though is that our historically reflexive awareness of psychoanalysis is a major factor in subverting its totalizing aspirations.
Thus, the lack of control associated with religious virtue fails to subvert it as does lack of control in the case of moral virtue.
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