释义 |
subversionsub‧ver‧sion /səbˈvɜːʃən $ -ˈvɜːrʒən/ noun [uncountable] - Many defectors provided the McCarthy committees with evidence of political subversion.
- Seventeen people were convicted of subversion following a coup attempt.
- After one court trial and numerous skirmishes, Williams was accused of subversion a second time in 1635.
- And the relevance of Northern Ireland to the subversion of democracy in Britain remains mystified.
- Central to Greenblatt's readings is the argument of subversion and containment.
- Fears of revolution and subversion were widely held in 1880.
- Nor is subversion the ruse of power.
- The only freedoms of the truly enslaved are subtle subversion and private dissent.
- Up in the shanty towns subversion ruled.
- When that happens they will tend to implement the decision without rancour or subversion.
actions, speeches etc that encourage rebellion► sedition actions, speeches etc that are intended to encourage people to oppose the government or to take part in a rebellion: · Hu was arrested on charges of sedition.· The clubs were suspected of being centres of sedition. ► subversion secret activities that are intended to encourage people to oppose the government or to take part in a rebellion: · Seventeen people were convicted of subversion following a coup attempt.· Many defectors provided the McCarthy committees with evidence of political subversion. ► Groupingsagitate, verbagitation, nounagitator, nounbipartisan, adjectivebipartite, adjectivebloc, nounBolshevik, nouncapitalism, nouncentrist, adjectivecoalition, nouncommie, nouncommunism, nouncommunist, nouncommunist, adjectiveCon, confederacy, nounconfederate, nounconfederation, nouncongress, nounconservatism, nounDem., disloyal, adjectivedissident, noundivide, verbdivisive, adjectivefascism, nounfascist, nounfederal, adjectivefederate, verbfederation, nounfront, nounginger group, nounhegemony, nounheterodox, adjectiveIndependent, nouninfighting, nouninterest group, nounIRA, nounIron Curtain, the, Lab, Labour, nounleftie, nounleftist, adjectiveleft-of-centre, adjectiveleft-wing, adjectivelefty, nounLib Dem, nounLiberal, nounLiberal Democrats, nounLiberal Party, loyalist, nounLuddite, nounmachine, nounmajority leader, nounminority leader, nounmoderate, adjectivemoderate, nounmonarchist, nounmovement, nounnationalism, nounnationalist, adjectivenationalist, nounNazi, nounneutral, adjectivenon-partisan, adjectivepalace revolution, nounparamilitary, adjectivepartisan, adjectivepartisan, nounparty, nounparty political, adjectiveparty politics, nounpinko, nounpro-, prefixpro-choice, adjectiveR, rabble-rousing, nounradical, nounrally, nounreactionary, adjectiverealign, verbrebel, nounrebellion, nounrebellious, adjectivered, adjectivered, nounrepublican, nounrevolt, nounrevolt, verbrevolutionary, adjectiverevolutionary, nounrightist, adjectiveright-of-centre, adjectiveright-wing, adjectiveroyalist, nounseparatist, nounspecial interest group, nounsplinter group, nounsplit, verbsubcommittee, nounsubversion, nounsuffragette, nounsympathizer, nounsympathy, nountendency, nounTory, nounTrotskyite, nountrue-blue, adjectiveUnionist, nounuprising, nounWhig, nounwing, noun secret activities that are intended to damage or destroy the power or influence of a government or established system: Murray was jailed for subversion. |