subvert
subvert is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound. 2 Tim. iii.
- 2.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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
- destroy
- extinguish
- invert
- overthrow
- reverse
- to overturn
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abase
- abasement
- about
- anastrophe
- and
- before
- bend
- bob
- bottom
- bow
- bring
- capsize
- cart
- cast
- concavity
- contraposition
- contrariety
- contrary
- couch
- courtesy
- cower
- crouch
- curtsy
- cut
- dash
- debase
- depress
- depressed
- depression
- detrude
- detrusion
- dip
- down
- drop
- duck
- dust
- ebb
- eversion
- fall
- fell
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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