What is the meaning of subversion?

noun

  • Destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity.
    • usage: "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subversion of rural innocence"
  • The act of subverting; as overthrowing or destroying a legally constituted government.
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