subversion : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: subversion	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for subversion
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
subversion n 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" Synonym(s): corruption, subversion the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government Synonym(s): subversion, subversive activity
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Subversion \Subver"sion\, n. [L. subversio: cf. F. subversion. See {Subvert}.] The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion* of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution. The subversion [by a storm] of woods and timber . . . through my whole estate. --Evelyn. Laws have been often abused to the oppression and subversion of that order they were intended to preserve. --Rogers.