0 present 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.
All this suggested a rich variety of experiences and practices, indifferent to (and sometimes even subverting) the tyrannies of respectability and standardization.
Without rejecting the first, she wants to wed it to the second - although it is clear that she prefers subverting social forms to applying controls.
This they may do either by competing with and even subverting formal institutions, or by complementing them and sometimes helping to sustain them.
These typically use elements of repetitiveness and uniformity, often subverting a much more regular plan form.
In many ways this passacaglia is a parody, subverting the techniques of the traditional form and denying the expectations raised by the title.
Participants who intend to form independent organizations or have connections with overseas organizations may be accused of 'subverting the government', which is a political crime.
In fact, there was not one but several insurgencies in the same locale, all competing with and subverting one another.
The theory of the king's two bodies allowed crimes to be considered treason which indirectly attacked him by subverting his authority.
