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Definition of "subverted" [subverted]

  • Simple past tense and past participle of subvert. (verb)

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Use "subverted" in a sentence
  • "When national identity is subverted, in other words, when those fundamental ideals that make a country who and what it is are negated in the name of power and reinforced symbolically in the built world, the outcome is revolution."
  • "Like I’ve said before, the law does not exist to be subverted, which is exactly what the terrorists do when it comes to warfare."
  • "Reply Obj. 1: This very modesty demands that the heretic should be admonished a first and second time: and if he be unwilling to retract, he must be reckoned as already "subverted," as we may gather from the words of the Apostle quoted above."