'Subversion' definitions:
Definition of 'subversion'
(from WordNet)
noun
Destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence" [syn: corruption, subversion]
noun
The act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government [syn: subversion, subversive activity]
Definition of 'Subversion'
From: GCIDE
- Subversion \Sub*ver"sion\, n. [L. subversio: cf. F. subversion. See Subvert.] The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution. [1913 Webster]
- The subversion [by a storm] of woods and timber . . . through my whole estate. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
- Laws have been often abused to the oppression and subversion of that order they were intended to preserve. --Rogers. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'subversion'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alienation,
- answer,
- bloodless revolution,
- bouleversement,
- brainwashing,
- breakdown,
- breakup,
- capsizal,
- capsize,
- cataclysm,
- catastrophe,
- clean slate,
- clean sweep,
- complete answer,
- computer revolution,
- confounding,
- confutation,
- contradiction,
- controversion,
- convulsion,
- corruption,
- counterindoctrination,
- counterrevolution,
- culbute,
- debacle,
- demolishing,
- demolition,
- denial,
- destroying,
- destruction,
- discrediting,
- displacement,
- downfall,
- effective rejoinder,
- fall,
- indoctrination,
- overset,
- overthrow,
- overthrowal,
- overturn,
- palace revolution,
- prostration,
- radical change,
- rebuttal,
- refutal,
- refutation,
- reindoctrination,
- revolt,
- revolution,
- revolutionary war,
- revulsion,
- ruin,
- sabotage,
- somersault,
- somerset,
- spasm,
- spill,
- squelch,
- striking alteration,
- sweeping change,
- tabula rasa,
- technological revolution,
- total change,
- transilience,
- turnover,
- undermining,
- upheaval,
- upset,
- upsetting,
- upturn,
- violent change,
- wreckage,
- wrecking