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subversion
noun
1 subversion
Destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity:
— The big city's subversion of rural innocence.
synonym: corruption.
Roget 162:
destruction;
waste,
dissolution,
breaking up;
diruption†,
disruption;
consumption;
disorganization.
fall,
downfall,
devastation,
ruin,
perdition,
crash;
eboulement [Fr.],
smash,
havoc,
delabrement [Fr.],
debacle;
break down,
break up,
fall apart;
prostration;
desolation,
bouleversement [Fr.],
wreck,
wrack,
shipwreck,
cataclysm;
washout.
extinction,
annihilation;
destruction of life
etc.
361;
knock-down blow;
doom,
crack of doom.
destroying
etc.
v.;
demolition,
demolishment;
overthrow,
subversion,
suppression;
abolition
etc.
(abrogation)
756;
biblioclasm†;
sacrifice;
ravage,
razzia†;
inactivation;
incendiarism;
revolution
etc.
146;
extirpation
etc.
(extraction)
301;
beginning of the end,
commencement de la fin [Fr.],
road to ruin;
dilapidation
etc.
(deterioration)
659;
sabotage.
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Roget 218:
inversion,
eversion,
subversion,
reversion,
retroversion,
introversion;
contraposition
etc.
237†;
contrariety
etc.
14;
reversal;
turn of the tide.
overturn;
somersault,
somerset;
summerset†;
culbute†;
revulsion;
pirouette.
transposition,
transposal†,
anastrophy†,
metastasis,
hyperbaton†,
anastrophe†,
hysteron proteron [Gr.],
hypallage†,
synchysis†,
tmesis†,
parenthesis;
metathesis;
palindrome.
pronation and supination [Anat.].
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Roget 146:
revolution,
bouleversement,
subversion,
break up;
destruction
etc.
162;
sudden change,
radical change,
sweeping organic change;
change of state,
phase change;
quantum leap,
quantum jump;
clean sweep,
coup d'etat [Fr.],
counter revolution.
jump,
leap,
plunge,
jerk,
start,
transilience†;
explosion;
spasm,
convulsion,
throe,
revulsion;
storm,
earthquake,
cataclysm.
legerdemain
etc.
(trick)
545.
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Roget 308:
lowering
etc.
v.;
depression;
dip
etc.
(concavity)
252;
abasement;
detrusion†;
reduction.
overthrow,
overset†,
overturn;
upset;
prostration,
subversion,
precipitation.
bow;
courtesy,
curtsy;
genuflexion†,
genuflection,
kowtow,
obeisance,
salaam.
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Polish: deprawacja, demoralizacja
2 subversion
The act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government.
synonym: subversive activity.
Dutch: omverwerping
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