(v. t.) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
(v. t.) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
(v. i.) To overthrow anything from the foundation; to be subversive.
Example Sentences:
(1) In such conditions, proposals which subvert fundamental academic principles meet no effective opposition.
(2) His reports alleged active, sustained and covert collusion to subvert the election which, if confirmed, could constitute treason.
(3) This is the first such virally-encoded soluble cytokine receptor to be identified, and may represent a more general mechanism by which viruses subvert the host immune system.
(4) He told the court: “We have been trying at the bar to imagine whether we can think of any other group of legal or natural persons, terrorist suspects, arms dealers, Jews, in respect of whose evidence one might even begin to think that one could tenably say, ‘Well, of course, in looking at this evidence I have been very careful because I know from the past that these people are a bit devious and a bit unworthy, and the only thing they’re really interested in is subverting public health.’ ” Yet last week’s judgment, running to 1,000 paragraphs, confirmed in excoriating detail just how determined big tobacco has been down the decades to achieve precisely this goal.
(5) Liu is serving 11 years for incitement to subvert state power after co-writing Charter 08, a call for democratic reforms in China.
(6) China is furious at the decision to recognise Liu, jailed for incitement to subvert state power after co-authoring a call for democratic reforms.
(7) Mona Deeley, a producer for Cinema Badila: Alternative Cinema on BBC Arabic TV , said: "The secret cinema is an interesting initiative for both subverting the ban on cinema and as a form of civil and cultural resistance."
(8) These findings, together with the fact that the worm's gut contains hemosiderin, suggest that the worm subverts the vascular reaction and causes within the nodule a controlled hemorrhage that serves the worm's nutritional needs.
(9) No wry observations or whoops-a-daisy trombones to subvert the conceit for period lolz.
(10) It claimed to be the minutes of a late 19th-century meeting of Jewish leaders, in which they discussed their goal of a global plan to subvert the morals of gentiles and control the press and the global economy.
(11) It was our moment to make our point by subverting the message using the show itself.” In an early meeting with the production team, they were, the statement claims, handed images of “pro-Assad graffiti – apparently natural in a Syrian refugee camp”.
(12) The attack on al-Jazeera is part of an assault on free speech to subvert the impact of old and new media in the Arab world.
(13) Government inspections of garment factories are infrequent and easily subverted by corruption, and the garment industry, by far Bangladesh's biggest exporter, is highly influential in government.
(14) One year later, a court sentenced him to 11 years for incitement to subvert state power.
(15) "The bottom line is that we're all unique individuals – even when I'm trying to imitate Mariah, it's still through my lens," she explains when we get on to the subject of subverting pop for the masses.
(16) "He repeatedly sacrificed his own interests, even his liberty, in order to defend these values and challenge and subvert the most powerful factions that were their enemies," Greenwald wrote.
(17) And particularly once you start splitting them over jurisdictions and things like that it becomes much more difficult to subvert their intentions.
(18) We speculate that a major mechanism by which some oncogenes promote metastatic ability is by subverting a signal transduction process, resulting in activation of a set of genes, some of which appear to promote metastatic ability.
(19) But Thorne’s working life has been spent subverting genres, through his Bafta-winning work on supernatural thriller The Fades and Shane Meadows’s bleak, beautiful coming-of-age miniseries This Is England ’86 and ’88.
(20) His adrenalin-pumping shows are woven into American life, yet subvert its capitalist fundamentals, that innate American principle of screw-thy-neighbour, in favour of what he insists to be "real" America – working class, militant, street-savvy, tough but romantic, nomadic but with roots – compiled into what feels like a single epic but vernacular rock-opera lasting four decades.
Unsettle
Definition:
(v. t.) To move or loosen from a settled position or state; to unfix; to displace; to disorder; to confuse.
(v. i.) To become unsettled or unfixed; to be disordered.
Example Sentences:
(1) It may unsettle Exxon Mobil a little but they are pretty experienced now and I don’t think they would derail anything,” she said.
(2) Some are enthused about the opportunities this brings; others find it deeply unsettling.
(3) Uncertainty over ‘Brexit’, weak overseas growth and financial market volatility are all creating an unsettling business environment and point to downside risks to the economy in 2016.” The official figures follow mixed reports on the economy in recent weeks.
(4) Many issues remain still unsettled concerning the modification of its structure and composition in diseases as well as details of its biosynthesis and its pharmacology.
(5) The response was still impressive in the latter stages, when Wenger reacted to Barcelona's second goal by asking Fabregas to play closer to a re-shaped front-line of Nasri, Walcott and Bendtner, and Walcott's speed unsettled Maxwell.
(6) The board of Tata deposed Mistry for several reasons – including a clash of cultures – but it was further unsettled by his plan to offload all or part of the UK steel business.
(7) The Spaniard has accused José Mourinho of unsettling the 21-year-old England international by going public with an initial £20m offer, which was rejected.
(8) Although taurine displaces GABA agonist binding to synaptic membranes, its allosteric effects on the benzodiazepine recognition site of the GABAA receptor complex is unsettled.
(9) However, each of these hypotheses meets with objections, the modality for the stimulation of amylase release by cationic amino acids being eventually considered as an unsettled matter.
(10) Yakubu's speed unsettled Steaua further but it was Downing, in front of Sven-Goran Eriksson, who turned the tie.
(11) The horror boom in the 70s spoke to an unsettled era in which anxiety about family, children and social order could be traced to large-scale economic crisis.
(12) Barcelona’s miracle worker Lionel Messi leaves Arsenal praying for one | Barney Ronay Read more City continue to monitor Messi’s situation should he become unsettled.
(13) While Pochettino was undoubtedly unsettled by the departure of the club’s influential chief executive, Nicola Cortese, in January , he had been unconvinced that the owner, Katharina Liebherr, could match his own ambition with bids having been submitted for a number of key players.
(14) It's this unsettling montage of re-enactment, confessional and political exposé that grabbed the attention of doco-godfathers Werner Herzog and Errol Morris – both executive producers – as well as awestruck critics the world over.
(15) Perhaps the most impressive aspect to the USA’s Concacaf qualifying success was that they achieved it despite having a highly unsettled starting XI.
(16) The poem touches a chord, because it doesn't deal with the often incoherent motivations of those who smashed up Tottenham and elsewhere, but the feelings of the rest of us: shocked, unsettled and confused.
(17) The role of the long head of the biceps in glenohumeral abduction and the accompanying external rotation is an unsettled issue.
(18) The role of radiotherapy in small cell carcinoma of the lung is unsettled; however, the radiosensitivity of this neoplasm is unquestioned.
(19) Thus, the origin of the osteoclasts should still be considered an unsettled question.
(20) She argues that the cash squeeze is being caused by the fragile legitimacy of new president Mohamed Morsi , with the associated turmoil unsettling investors and markets.