subvert
verb (formal)- [transitive, intransitive] subvert (something)
to try to destroy the authority of a political, religious, etc. system by attacking it secretly or indirectly synonym undermine颠覆;暗中破坏 - [transitive] subvert something
to challenge somebody’s ideas or expectations and make them consider the opposite synonym undermine策反;颠覆 The film subverts notions of male and female identity. 这部电影颠覆了男性和女性身份的概念。
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French subvertir or Latin subvertere, from sub- ‘from below’ + vertere ‘to turn’.