Subversion

Definition: Subversion

Subversion

Noun

1. Destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence".

2. The act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "subversion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Subversion \Sub*ver"sion\, noun. [Latin expression subversio: compare to the French expression subversion. See Subvert.]. (Websters 1913)

Military

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Synonyms: Subversion

Depression

Overthrow, overset, overturn; upset; prostration, subversion, precipitation.

Destruction

Destroying; Verb: demolition, demolishment; overthrow, subversion, suppression; abolition; (abrogation); biblioclasm; sacrifice; ravage, razzia; inactivation; incendiarism; revolution; extirpation; (extraction); beginning of the end, commencement de la fin, road to ruin; dilapidation; (deterioration); sabotage.

Inversion

Noun: inversion, eversion, subversion, reversion, retroversion, introversion; contraposition; contrariety; reversal; turn of the tide.

Revolution

Noun: revolution, bouleversement, subversion, break up; destruction; sudden change, radical change, sweeping organic change; change of state, phase change; quantum leap, quantum jump; clean sweep, coup d'etat, counter revolution.

Crosswords: Subversion

French (subversion), German (subversion).

I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick)

Security: Subversion (1958)

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Books

• Bodies of Subversion 2 Ed: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo (reference)

• Faking It: Mock-Documentary and the Subversion of Factuality (reference)

• Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion (reference)

• Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender (reference)

• Sour Grapes : Studies in the Subversion of Rationality (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Inside the CIA, Vol. 3 - Subversion (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Disco Subversion, Vol. 2 (reference)

• Sub Club Presents Subversion [IMPORT] (reference)

• Subversion [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Let all our neighbors know that we shall join with them to oppose aggression or subversion anywhere in the Americas. (reference)

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Civil Liberties

Tunisia

The Press Code contains broad provisions prohibiting subversion and defamation, neither of which is defined clearly. (references)

Tajikistan

Members of the organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, who overstep this boundary, were subject to arrest and imprisonment for subversion. (references)

China

Freelance journalist Zhu Ruixiang was arrested on May 9 and charged with subversion after distributing articles over the Internet. (references)

Economic History

Nepal

It permits restrictions on unions only in cases of subversion, sedition, or similar conditions. (references)

Costa Rica

Costa Rica broke relations with Cuba in 1961 to protest Cuban support of leftist subversion in Central America and has not renewed formal diplomatic ties with the Castro regime. (references)

Libya

After Qadhafi's 1969 coup, U.S.-Libyan relations became increasingly strained because of Libya's foreign policies supporting international terrorism and subversion against moderate Arab and African governments. (references)

Human Rights

China

Since December 1998, at least 30 core leaders of the CDP have been given severe punishments on subversion charges. (references)

Ethiopia

In November Frissa was released on bail and charged with subversion and aligning with and supporting a terrorist organization. (references)

China

According to credible reports, Huang Qi was bound hand and foot and beaten by police in Chengdu while they tried to force him to confess to subversion. (references)

Minorities

Saudi Arabia

Since the 1979 Iranian revolution, some Shi'a who are suspected of subversion have been subjected periodically to surveillance and limitations on travel abroad. (references)

Political Economy

Venezuela

The Interior and Justice Ministry controls the Technical Judicial Police (PTJ), which conducts most criminal investigations, and the State Security Police (DISIP), which is primarily responsible for investigating cases of corruption, subversion, and arms trafficking. (references)

Singapore

The Internal Security Department (ISD) in the Ministry of Home Affairs is authorized by the Internal Security Act (ISA) to counter such perceived threats to the nation's security as espionage, international terrorism, threats to racial and religious harmony, and subversion. (references)

Worker Rights

China

Li was charged with "incitement to subversion of state power," an apparent reference to his attempt to publicize prison conditions through a hunger strike. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Ending with "subversion": anti-subversion.

Albanian

përmbysje (dislocation, fall, overturn, tumbling, upheaval, upset). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وقيعة (combat, episode, slander), ‏تخريب (devastation, ruin, sabotage, vandalism, wastefulness), ‏تآمر (collude, connive, conspiracy, conspire, intrigue, plot, trinket), ‏تدمير (annihilation, demolition, destruction, devastation, mayhem, overthrow, ruin, wreck), ‏دمار (desolation, destruction, devastation, havoc, rack, ruin, ruination, wrack, wreck). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сваляне (downthrow, landing, overturn, rush), катурване (tumble), гибел (death, disaster, doom, fate, grave, perdition, ruin, ruination, shipwreck, undoing), покваряване (depravation, infection, vitiation), подривна дейност (sap). (various references)

Chinese 

� 覆 (subversive), 顛覆 . (various references)

Czech

svržení (deposition, overthrow, precipitation), zkáza (annihilation, corruption, destruction, perdition, pulverization, ruin, undoing), podvracení. (various references)

Danish

undergravende virksomhed, nedbrydende virksomhed. (various references)

Dutch

omverwerping (overthrow). (various references)

Esperanto

faligo (overthrow). (various references)

Farsi 

وابسته به خرابکاری , تخریب (Demolition, Destruction), خرابکاری (Obstructionism), انهدام (Demolition, Destruction), درون واژگونی . (various references)

French

subversion. (various references)

German

subversion, zersetzung (corrosion, decay, decline, decomposition, disintegration, disruptiveness, undermining), untergrabung (undermining). (various references)

Greek 

υπονόμευση (mining, undermining), ανατροπή (overthrow, overturn, overturning, reversal, toppling, turnover, upset). (various references)

Hebrew 

ערעור (appeal, disputation, objection, protest, shaking), חתיר�" (digging, ditch, effort, sabotage, undermining), חתר� ות (sabotage, subversiveness). (various references)

Hungarian

felforgatás, felfordulás (cataclysm, clutter, combustion, commotion, confusion, convulsions, earthquake, hoo-ha, hoopla, huddle, hurly burly, hurly-burly, hurry-skurry, mess, mix, mix-up, muddle, muss, tangled skein, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, upheaval, upset, upsetting, whoop-de-doo). (various references)

Indonesian

subversi (subversive). (various references)

Italian

sovversione. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

潰乱 (corruption). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かいら�" (bearing an egg, circulation, corruption, sailing off, sending round, sinking into anarchy, unmooring, weighing anchor). (various references)

Pig Latin

ubversionsay

Portuguese

subversão (overthrow). (various references)

Russian 

ниспровержение (debacle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svrgavanje, subverzija. (various references)

Spanish

subversión. (various references)

Swedish

omstörtning (cataclysm, overturn, upheaval). (various references)

Turkish

yıkılma (collapse, crack up, decay, downfall, fall, shipwreck, wreck), harap olma (dilapidation, wreck), hükümeti devirme (overthrow), altüst etme. (various references)

Ukrainian

підривна діяльність (sedition), повалення (downfall, labefaction, overthrow, overturn, precipitation). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự phá vỡ (disruption), sự lật đổ (overthrew, overthrow, overthrown, overturn, upset), sự đánh đổ (demolishment, demolition). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "subversion": subversionary, subversions. (additional references)

Words ending with "subversion": antisubversion. (additional references)

Words containing "subversion": antisubversions. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: souvenirs.

-2 letters: bouviers, neurosis, resinous, souvenir, suberins, versions.

-3 letters: bonuses, bossier, bournes, bourses, bouvier, bovines, bruises, burnies, envious, insures, nervous, niveous, ourebis, renvois, riboses, seniors, serious, sonsier, soubise, suberin, suborns, sunrise, unrobes, unsober, urinose, version, viroses, viruses.

-4 letters: bevors, birses, bisons, boners, bonier, bosuns, bourne, bourns, bourse, bouses, bovine, brines, broses, bruins, bruise, buries.

+1 letter: subversions.

+3 letters: obtrusiveness, subversionary.

+4 letters: antisubversion.

+5 letters: antisubversions, obstructiveness, obtrusivenesses, oversubscribing, unobtrusiveness.