noun
Meaning 1
An advertisement created by subvertising.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
subvert
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsʌbvət/
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General-American: sŭbʹvûrt
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General-American: /ˈsʌbvɚt/
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rhymes with -ʌbvə(ɹ)t
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Received-Pronunciation: /səbˈvɜːt/
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US: səbvûrtʹ
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US: /səbˈvɝt/
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)t
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CMU ARPABET: S AH0 B V ER1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- , Book IV, Chapter XVIII This would be to subvert the principles and foundations of all knowledge.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: devastate, erase, wreck, destroy, annihilate, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, dash, decompose, demolish, desolate, diffuse, disintegrate, disperse, dissolve, eliminate, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, fordo, fuck, harry, jazz, lay waste, level, liquidate, nuke, obliterate, overthrow, overturn, pull down, pulverize, race, raze, ravage, ravel, remove, ruin, ruinate, stamp out, total, subvert, unbreed, unexist, unmake, uproot, waste, wipe out, wipe off
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- The oppressive regime stays in power only as long as they manage to subvert the will of the people.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: corrupt, seduce, suborn, adulterate, debauch, demoralize, detort, file, immoralize, lead astray, pervert, pollute, preposterate, sophisticate, subvert, tamper, unmoralize, vitiate, warp
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
destroy completely
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- we must not let our civil liberties be subverted by the current crisis
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: destroy, ruin
verb
Meaning 6
cause the downfall of; of rulers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The Czar was overthrown
- subvert the ruling class
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: overthrow, overturn, bring down
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: depose, force out
Narrower terms: revolutionize
verb
Meaning 7
destroy property or hinder normal operations
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sabotage, undermine, countermine, counteract, weaken
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: disobey
Narrower terms: derail
verb
Meaning 8
corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- debauch the young people with wine and women
- Socrates was accused of corrupting young men
- Do school counselors subvert young children?
- corrupt the morals
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: corrupt, pervert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change, alter, modify
Narrower terms: sensualize, sensualise, carnalize, carnalise, infect, lead off, lead astray, poison, bastardize, bastardise, suborn
History
Etymology
Back-formation from subvertising, by analogy with advert.
From Middle English subverten, from Old French subvertir, from Latin subvertō (“to overthrow”, literally “to underturn, turn from beneath”).
Across languages
Translations
44 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: protestreclame — advertisement created by subvertising
- Finnish: vastamainos — advertisement created by subvertising
- Bulgarian: катурвам (katurvam) — to overthrow
- Bulgarian: събарям (sǎbarjam) — to overthrow
- Dutch: omverwerpen — to overthrow
- Finnish: kumota — to overthrow
- Finnish: kukistaa — to overthrow
- French: renverser — to overthrow
- German: stürzen — to overthrow
- German: umstoßen — to overthrow
- Hungarian: megdönt — to overthrow
- Latin: subvertō — to overthrow
- Portuguese: subverter — to overthrow
- Russian: сверга́ть (svergátʹ) — to overthrow
- Russian: ниспроверга́ть (nisprovergátʹ) — to overthrow
- Spanish: contrariar — to overthrow
- Swedish: omstörta — to overthrow
- Swedish: störta — to overthrow
- Bulgarian: развращавам (razvraštavam) — to pervert the mind
- Dutch: corrumperen — to pervert the mind
- Finnish: tuhota — to pervert the mind
- Finnish: horjuttaa — to pervert the mind
- German: korrumpieren — to pervert the mind
- German: zerrütten — to pervert the mind
- Italian: corrompere — to pervert the mind
- Portuguese: subverter — to pervert the mind
- Russian: развраща́ть (razvraščátʹ) — to pervert the mind
- Russian: разруша́ть (razrušátʹ) — to pervert the mind
- Spanish: subvertir — to pervert the mind
- Bulgarian: подривам (podrivam) — to upturn convention by undermining it
- Catalan: subvertir — to upturn convention by undermining it
- Dutch: ondergraven — to upturn convention by undermining it
- Finnish: mullistaa — to upturn convention by undermining it
- Finnish: kumota — to upturn convention by undermining it
- German: untergraben — to upturn convention by undermining it
- German: unterlaufen — to upturn convention by undermining it
- Hungarian: aláaknáz — to upturn convention by undermining it
- Hungarian: felforgat — to upturn convention by undermining it
- Hungarian: felbomlaszt — to upturn convention by undermining it
- Irish: suaith — to upturn convention by undermining it
- Latin: subvertō — to upturn convention by undermining it
- Portuguese: subverter — to upturn convention by undermining it
- Russian: подрыва́ть (podryvátʹ) — to upturn convention by undermining it
- Spanish: subvertir — to upturn convention by undermining it