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subversive

noun
🔊/səbˈvɜːsɪv/
🔊/səbˈvɜːrsɪv/
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  1. a person who tries to destroy or damage a government or political system by attacking it secretly or indirectly颠覆性的；暗中起破坏作用的
    • He was a known political subversive.他是一个有名的政治颠覆分子。🔊🔊
    Topics War and conflictc2

subversive

adjective
🔊/səbˈvɜːsɪv/
🔊/səbˈvɜːrsɪv/
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  1. trying or likely to destroy or damage a government or political system by attacking it secretly or indirectly颠覆性的；暗中起破坏作用的 synonym seditious
    • subversive activities颠覆活动
    Topics War and conflictc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • consider something
    • deem something
    • …
    adverb
    • very
    • inherently
    • potentially
    • …
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    Word Originmid 17th cent.: from medieval Latin subversivus, from the verb subvertere, from sub- ‘from below’ + vertere ‘to turn’.