Usually means: Undermine authority or established system.
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  1. subvert: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. subvert: Merriam-Webster
  3. subvert: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. subvert: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. subvert: Collins English Dictionary
  6. subvert: Vocabulary.com
  7. Subvert, subvert: Wordnik
  8. subvert: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. subvert: Wiktionary
  10. subvert: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. subvert: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. subvert: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. subvert: Dictionary.com
  14. subvert: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. subvert: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Subvert: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Subvert: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. subvert: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. subvert: Rhymezone
  20. Subvert: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. subvert: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. subvert: FreeDictionary.org
  23. subvert: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. subvert: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. subvert: Legal dictionary

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  1. subvert: Encyclopedia

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  1. subvert: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
verb:  (transitive) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
verb:  (transitive) To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
noun:  An advertisement created by subvertising.

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