subversion

IPA: sʌbvˈɝʒʌn

noun

  • (obsolete) The act of subverting; overturning; flipping from beneath.
  • The act of overthrowing a government or a ruler; dethronement.
  • The condition of being subverted.
  • A systematic attempt to overthrow a government by working from within; undermining.
  • A revision considered more similar to preceding subversions than a revision deemed a new "version" is to preceding versions.
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Examples of "subversion" in Sentences

  • When did the subversion occur
  • It's about the process subversion.
  • Education and subversion in the antebellum era.
  • The subversion has constantly outpaced efforts.
  • It's the report that found assurance of future acts of Japanese-American subversion from the "disturbing and confirming" fact that none had yet been taken.
  • Early Wednesday, as part of the strike, the lawyers presented a petition to the High Court in Kampala expressing their concern about what they called the subversion of the rule of law.
  • The result of this subversion is a surprisingly mature and complex look at gender politics — revealing the power of comics and science fiction to address feminist issues and to reach a younger, predominantly male audience with a enlightening message.
  • MZS again: "Gleefully sensationalistic and paced like an adults-only shoot-'em-up video game, [The Hills Have Eyes 2 is] ultimately less interested in subversion and subtext than in making viewers squirm, shriek and throw up into their popcorn bags."
  • Department and the White House always say that there are three obstacles to improving relations between Cuban and the United States, and they are your allegiance to the Soviet Union, what they call subversion in this hemisphere, and the large number of your troops in Africa.
  • But as the Turkish society has been thoroughly Kemalized by the Kemalofascist military, bureaucracy, and judiciary for almost a century, and as it has also been thoroughly Islamized by the their Muslim leaders, with their strong economic base; there is no danger of any form of subversion from the Turkish people against the status quo or any wish for real democracy.

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