0 present 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.
It is also a theme that students latch onto with enthusiasm, and enjoy subverting.
What should finally be stressed though is that our historically reflexive awareness of psychoanalysis is a major factor in subverting its totalizing aspirations.
The negative, apophatic approach can be seen either as subverting itself, or as being restricted to certain properties, or as resting on a self-excluding principle.
Instead of having been passive objects in a history driven by colonial forces, they continued to pursue their own agendas, sometimes subverting colonial authority.
This question has the possibility of subverting the doctrine of informed consent entirely.
To 'stay strange' required subverting the genre-oriented, archival listening of the jazu-kissa, but also demanded the creation of new sounds.
They have done so by integrating, and then often subverting, existing particularist institutional and ideological structures.
The theory of the king's two bodies allowed crimes to be considered treason which indirectly attacked him by subverting his authority.
