subvert
verb (used with object)
to overthrow (something established or existing).
subverter
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a word derived from
subvert.
Example Sentences
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Queen Victoria was "deeply shocked" by the high-level attention paid to this subverter of established order.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I see a thousand builders unequal to one subverter; what then of the one builder who is followed by a thousand subverters?”
From The Secret of Divine Civilization by `Abdu'l-Bahá
He was denounced by priest and publican as a subverter of morals.
From Melomaniacs by James Huneker
But if any of them showed any mildness, or seemed a favourer of truth, against him, as the subverter of Britain, were all their malice and their weapons bent.
From Old English Chronicles by Various
He was the agitator, the destroyer of prescription, the internal improver, the liberal, the radical, the inventor of means, the opener of doors and markets, the subverter of monopoly and abuse....
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Edna Henry Lee Turpin
