subversion

Meanings

Plural: subversions

Noun

• destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity
  • "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"
• the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government
• The act of subverting; overturning; flipping from beneath.
• The act of overthrowing a government or a ruler; dethronement.
• The condition of being subverted.
• A systematic attempt to overthrow a government by working from within; undermining.
• A revision considered more similar to preceding subversions than a revision deemed a new "version" is to preceding versions.

Synonyms

corruption, subversive activity

Related Words

subversioning, subversive, subvert, subverter