Associations to the word «Subversion»

Wiktionary

SUBVERSION, noun. The act of subverting or the condition of being subverted.
SUBVERSION, noun. A systematic attempt to overthrow a government by working from within; undermining.
SUBVERSION, noun. A revision considered more similar to preceding subversions than a revision deemed a new "version" is to preceding versions.

Dictionary definition

SUBVERSION, noun. 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".
SUBVERSION, noun. The act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats