subversion

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sub=ver=sion

CIDE DICTIONARY

subversion, 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.  [1913 Webster]
"The subversion [by a storm] of woods and timber . . . through my whole estate."  [1913 Webster]
"Laws have been often abused to the oppression and subversion of that order they were intended to preserve."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

subversion

Revolution

N revolution, bouleversement, subversion, break up, destruction, sudden change, radical change, sweeping organic change, change of state, phase change, quantum leap, quantum jump, clean sweep, coup d'etat, counter revolution, jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, transilience, explosion, spasm, convulsion, throe, revulsion, storm, earthquake, cataclysm, legerdemain, unrecognizable, revolutionary.

Destruction

N destruction, waste, dissolution, breaking up, diruption, disruption, consumption, disorganization, fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash, eboulement, smash, havoc, delabrement, debacle, break down, break up, fall apart, prostration, desolation, bouleversement, wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm, washout, extinction, annihilation, destruction of life, knock-down blow, doom, crack of doom, destroying, demolition, demolishment, overthrow, subversion, suppression, abolition, biblioclasm, sacrifice, ravage, razzia, inactivation, incendiarism, revolution, extirpation, beginning of the end, commencement de la fin, road to ruin, dilapidation, sabotage, destroyed, perishing, trembling to its fall, nodding to its fall, tottering to its fall, in course of destruction, extinct, all-destroying, all-devouring, all-engulfing, destructive, subversive, ruinous, devastating, incendiary, deletory, destroying, suicidal, deadly, with crushing effect, with a sledge hammer, delenda est Carthago, dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit, ecrasez l'infame.

Inversion

N inversion, eversion, subversion, reversion, retroversion, introversion, contraposition, contrariety, reversal, turn of the tide, overturn, somersault, somerset, summerset, culbute, revulsion, pirouette, transposition, transposal, anastrophy, metastasis, hyperbaton, anastrophe, hysteron proteron, hypallage, synchysis, tmesis, parenthesis, metathesis, palindrome, pronation and supination, inverted, wrong side out, wrong side up, inside out, upside down, bottom upwards, keel upwards, supine, on one's head, topsy-turvy, sens dessus dessous, inverse, reverse, opposite, top heavy, inversely, hirdy-girdy, heels over head, head over heels.

Depression

N depression, lowering, depression, dip, abasement, detrusion, reduction, overthrow, overset, overturn, upset, prostration, subversion, precipitation, bow, courtesy, curtsy, genuflexion, genuflection, kowtow, obeisance, salaam, depressed, at a low ebb, prostrate, detrusive, facinus quos inquinat aequat.