0 past simple and past participle of subvert --
1 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.
By fabricating this continuity, he subverted the position of contemporary professional philosophers, who on the whole were not concerned with the natural sciences.
In contrast, use of cloning by infertile couples does not necessarily entail that the offspring's interests are subverted to advance the interests of the procreators.
The very institutions of socialization were being subverted.
Without such parity there is a serious risk that democracy will be subverted by powerful economic interests.
However, expectations may be subverted, resulting in incongruity, and this incongruity may give rise to humour.
Libertarians shared the objections of corporate and traditionalist conservatives, contending that federal social programmes entailed burdensome taxes and subverted individual rights and responsibilities.
It presupposed that deals struck with these authorities would survive in the legislature and not to be subverted by local governments or the courts.
Euripides' pre-existing narrative (and its mythical sources) were subverted, deconstructed, and replaced by a new narrative.
