subvert

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Noun

Back-formation from subvertising, by analogy with advert.

To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
- He […] razeth your cities, and subverts your towns. - 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:...
- , Book IV, Chapter XVIII This would be to subvert the principles and foundations of all knowledge.
Synonyms: devastate erase wreck destroy annihilate aerosolize atomize benothing bewreck blot out blotto dash decompose demolish desolate diffuse disintegrate disperse dissolve eliminate eradicate exterminate extinguish extirpate
To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
- The oppressive regime stays in power only as long as they manage to subvert the will of the people.
Synonyms: corrupt seduce suborn adulterate debauch demoralize detort file immoralize lead astray pervert pollute preposterate sophisticate subvert tamper unmoralize vitiate warp
To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).

From Middle English subverten, from Old French subvertir, from Latin subvertō (“to overthrow”, literally “to underturn, turn from beneath”).