verb🔗ShareTo overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly."The students' protest successfully subverted the school's rigid rules about cell phone use. "politicsgovernmentactionsocietyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound."A dictator stays in power only as long as he manages to subvert the will of his people."mindpoliticsgovernmentsocietymoralphilosophyactionattitudeChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath)."The student subtly subverted the traditional classroom rules by organizing a class discussion on topics not typically allowed. "politicsculturesocietyactionphilosophyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAn advertisement created by subvertising."The activist group created a clever subvertising that exposed the company's harmful environmental practices. "mediaartcultureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading