Subversion Definition & Meaning

subversion
noun
  1. 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"
  2. the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government

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