Subvert: alternatives and connections

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside.

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To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.

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Not to obey; to neglect or refuse to obey (a superior or his commands, the laws, etc.); to transgress the commands of (one in authority); to violate,…

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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

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To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

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To make carnal; to debase to carnality.

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To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive.

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Infected. Cf. Enfect.

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Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a dea…

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To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government.

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To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure.

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To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.

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Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance.

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Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance.

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A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.

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A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.

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To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.

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To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.

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The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and m…

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The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and m…

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The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subver…

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The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subver…

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One who violates; an infringer; a profaner; a ravisher.

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One who violates; an infringer; a profaner; a ravisher.

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Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

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To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract g…

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An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.

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To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to de…

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To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self b…

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To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in disciplin…

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To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.

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To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies.

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To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.

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To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.

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To turnanother way; to divert.

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Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, rel…

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To excavate the earth beneath, or the part of, especially for the purpose of causing to fall or be overthrown; to form a mine under; to sap; as, to u…

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To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exagger…

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To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weak…

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