0 past simple and past participle of subvert
1 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.
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.
However, according to one view, this basic configuration can be subverted in order to accommodate neutralisation.
Immediately the hierarchical arrangement that characterizes the other schemes, with a clear circulation system branching out from the main entrance, is subverted.
What is more, he was reported to have subverted school decorum by mocking his fellow teachers and making light of the school's activities.
The masker's performance, however, subverted the mood and message of the character's song.
It is the multiplicity of ways such communication can be effected, subverted or rendered problematic that concerns me here.
Euripides' pre-existing narrative (and its mythical sources) were subverted, deconstructed, and replaced by a new narrative.
