Found 3 items, similar to subversion.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: subversion
subversi
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: subversion
subversion
n 1: 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]
2: the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a
legally constituted government [syn:
subversive activity]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Subversion
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.
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The subversion [by a storm] of woods and timber . . .
through my whole estate. --Evelyn.
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Laws have been often abused to the oppression and
subversion of that order they were intended to
preserve. --Rogers.
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