subversion

subversion
    n 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" [syn:
         {corruption}, {subversion}]
    2: the act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a
       legally constituted government [syn: {subversion},
       {subversive activity}]
    

Subversion \Sub*ver"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.
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         The subversion [by a storm] of woods and timber . . .
         through my whole estate.                 --Evelyn.
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         Laws have been often abused to the oppression and
         subversion of that order they were intended to
         preserve.                                --Rogers.
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73 Moby Thesaurus words for "subversion":
      alienation, answer, bloodless revolution, bouleversement,
      brainwashing, breakdown, breakup, capsizal, capsize, cataclysm,
      catastrophe, clean slate, clean sweep, complete answer,
      computer revolution, confounding, confutation, contradiction,
      controversion, convulsion, corruption, counterindoctrination,
      counterrevolution, culbute, debacle, demolishing, demolition,
      denial, destroying, destruction, discrediting, displacement,
      downfall, effective rejoinder, fall, indoctrination, overset,
      overthrow, overthrowal, overturn, palace revolution, prostration,
      radical change, rebuttal, refutal, refutation, reindoctrination,
      revolt, revolution, revolutionary war, revulsion, ruin, sabotage,
      somersault, somerset, spasm, spill, squelch, striking alteration,
      sweeping change, tabula rasa, technological revolution,
      total change, transilience, turnover, undermining, upheaval, upset,
      upsetting, upturn, violent change, wreckage, wrecking