What is another word for Subverted?

Pronunciation: [səbvˈɜːtɪd] (IPA)

Subverted is a term that can refer to the act of overturning, sabotaging, undermining, or corrupting something (e.g., a system, a belief, a tradition, a relationship, a plot). Depending on the context, synonyms for subverted might include terms such as disrupted, destabilized, reversed, perverted, adulterated, invalidated, distorted, modified, transformed, or hijacked. For example, one could say that a social movement subverted the status quo, or that a hacker subverted a computer system. Alternatively, one could say that an ideology was subverted by its own followers, or that a story was subverted by a sudden plot twist. Overall, subverted implies a significant change or deviation from the norm or original intention.

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Usage examples for Subverted

The happiness that centres in the good of the whole may for the present find momentary interruption, but never can be long Subverted: while that individual happiness, of which almost the whole world is in pursuit, is continually blundering, mistaking its object, losing its road, and ending in disappointment.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
It remains to be proved whether, in a few years hence, those who have Subverted one monarchy by violence may not be tempted to have recourse to a similar measure in order to free themselves from the successor they have chosen; for even already it appears clear to me, that the expectations entertained, not only by the partisans of Louis-Philippe, but by the generality of the people, are such as he never can fulfil.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner
No, it was the director who blighted and Subverted talent, and the vitiated public taste that shifted restlessly and demanded novelty.
"The Tapestry Book"
Helen Churchill Candee

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