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Definition of subversion in English: subversionnoun səbˈvəːʃ(ə)n mass nounThe undermining of the power and authority of an established system or institution. the ruthless subversion of democracy an 11-year sentence for inciting subversion count noun subversions of conventional morality Example sentencesExamples - While McCarthyism rooted out political subversion, science and the media worked to instill proper gender roles.
- The artist's show of drawings and paper constructions continued his sly, joyous subversion of traditional mediums.
- Even women starting to wear trousers was an act of subversion.
- If those protests lead to constitutionally questionable successions, it becomes a subversion of democracy.
- The director's subversion of the hero myth is spelled out clearly by the contrast between the movie's two parts.
Rhymesanimadversion, aspersion, assertion, aversion, bioconversion, Cistercian, coercion, conversion, desertion, disconcertion, dispersion, diversion, emersion, excursion, exertion, extroversion, immersion, incursion, insertion, interspersion, introversion, Persian, perversion, submersion, tertian, version Definition of subversion in US English: subversionnoun The undermining of the power and authority of an established system or institution. the ruthless subversion of democracy an 11-year sentence for inciting subversion count noun subversions of conventional morality Example sentencesExamples - The artist's show of drawings and paper constructions continued his sly, joyous subversion of traditional mediums.
- If those protests lead to constitutionally questionable successions, it becomes a subversion of democracy.
- The director's subversion of the hero myth is spelled out clearly by the contrast between the movie's two parts.
- Even women starting to wear trousers was an act of subversion.
- While McCarthyism rooted out political subversion, science and the media worked to instill proper gender roles.
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