0 to try to destroy or damage something, especially an established political system: --
Our best intentions are sometimes subverted by our natural tendency to selfishness.
The rebel army is attempting to subvert the government.
But this would subvert his bourgeois standpoint in general, and especially his position as the defender of absolutism.
These cultural differences are problematic for principlist theories of global or international bioethics because they subvert claims of convergence - "all" do not agree.
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.
However, according to one view, this basic configuration can be subverted in order to accommodate neutralisation.
Those which subvert strategies of essentialism can be understood in the interstices of ' ' historical, social and material realities.
It is not new for an artist to subvert the meaning of familiar objects or to challenge our interpretations of imagery.
Institutions and individuals can subvert, ignore, or flout the best-intended laws.
Thus, the lack of control associated with religious virtue fails to subvert it as does lack of control in the case of moral virtue.
