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

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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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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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