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Subvert   /səbvˈərt/   Listen
verb
Subvert  v. t.  (past & past part. subverted; pres. part. subverting)  
1.
To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly. "These are his substance, sinews, arms, and strength, With which he yoketh your rebellious necks, Razeth your cities, and subverts your towns." "This would subvert the principles of all knowledge."
2.
To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
Synonyms: To overturn; overthrow; destroy; invert; reverse; extinguish.


Subvert  v. i.  To overthrow anything from the foundation; to be subversive. "They have a power given to them like that of the evil principle, to subvert and destroy."





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"Subvert" Quotes from Famous Books



... know in advance that every member of the collective group will continuously strive to get for himself to the utmost limit regardless, if it could be discovered, of what is rightfully due. And a plan of Society which each member of Society is striving to subvert is doomed ...
— The Inhumanity of Socialism • Edward F. Adams
... that the philosophy of Plato possesses this preeminence; that its dignity and sublimity are unrivaled; that it is the parent of all that ennobles man; and, that it is founded on principles, which neither time can obliterate, nor sophistry subvert, is the principal ...
— Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato • Thomas Taylor
... continued Mr. Chipperton,—"I would ask them, I say, how they could think of all this, and then deliberately subvert, at the behest of a young and giddy colored hireling, the structure we had upraised. And what could they have said to that, I would like to know?" he asked, looking around from one ...
— A Jolly Fellowship • Frank R. Stockton
... hastened to show their hand as soon as they obtained any power. As has been seen, the Holy Father himself complained bitterly of the increase of irreligion and immorality under their ill-omened auspices in Romagna. It was not their policy to reconstitute, but to subvert. No existing institution, however excellent, was sacred in their eyes. Thus speak the archbishops and bishops of the Marches in a remonstrance addressed to the Piedmontese Governor on 21st November, 1860: "We scarcely believe our own eyes, ...
— Pius IX. And His Time • The Rev. AEneas MacDonell
... the general government in reference to them were based on its power to admit States into the Union. To that rule of construction, however, he made a very notable exception. Declaring that the Mormons were for the most part aliens by birth, that they were trying to subvert the authority of the United States, that they themselves were unfit for citizenship and their community unfit for membership in the Union, he favored the repeal of the act by which the territorial government of Utah was set up. He went farther, and maintained that only such territory ...
— Stephen Arnold Douglas • William Garrott Brown


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