English-Spanish translations for subvert

• subvertir
  Así pues, el Ecofin trata de subvertir el paquete relativo al sistema financiero. Then Ecofin tries to subvert the package on the financial system.
  El Sr. Vidal-Quadras ha dicho que el partido al que represento, y yo mismo, queremos subvertir la Constitución española. Mr Vidal-Quadras said that the party I represent, and I myself, want to subvert the Spanish Constitution.
  Creo que su manifestación actual trata de subvertir los valores humanitarios de igualdad, ya sea por razones de género, religión o nacionalidad. I think its current manifestation aims to subvert the humanitarian values of equality, whether it be between gender, religion or nationality.
• contrariar

Definition of subvert

• To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly
• To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound
• To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath
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Examples

• A dictator stays in power only as long as he manages to subvert the will of his people.

Related words

• subvertising
• subverter
• subvertisement