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The word of the day is ‘subvert’.
The word is a verb, i.e., it demonstrates an action or an occurrence.
Yes, the past form of the word is subverted.
It means:
1. Rebel
2. Destroy
3. Undermine the power and authority seminararbeit schreiben lassen of (an established system or institution)
4. Corrupt
1. Kings had made efforts to destroy its power and subvert its influence.
2. Is it reasonable that he should seek to subvert the throne of a princess to whom he is affianced?
3. Such men might try to subvert bachelorarbeit schreiben lassen us, and, just possibly, might succeed.
4. It was being admitted he was honest akademische ghostwriter, that influence did not subvert justice.
5. It is an attempt to subvert the democratic government.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
corrupt, debase, overthrow, overturn, pervert, poison, sabotage, supersede, suppress, topple, undermine, vitiate, capsize, contaminate, defeat, demolish, deprave facharbeit schreiben lassen, depress, extinguish, invalidate, invert, level, raze, reverse, ruin, supplant, tumble, upset, wreck, pull down, destabilize, unsettle, bring down, depose, oust, dethrone hausarbeit schreiben lassen, disestablish, dissolve, disrupt, wreak havoc on, destroy, annihilate, undo, impair, damage, warp, defile, distort, embitter, etc.
aid, help, improve, purify, straighten, build, construct, create, encourage, lose, make happy, repair, be loyal, comply, obey, uphold
Quotation:
I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I’m trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in ‘Bellocq’s Ophelia’ my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it’s not linear, but it’s round in that way, and much of ‘Native Guard’ is like that.
Natasha Trethewey
Social Example:
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