subverse

verb, noun — 2 senses

subverse

verb

Etymology From Latin subversus, past participle of subvertere. See subvert.

1

Obsolete To subvert.

  • But a usurping ape, with guile suborned, / Had all subversed1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

subverse

noun

Etymology sub- + -verse

1

Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction A kind of alternative universe.

  • You must be picking up olfactory emanations from a subverse destined to be your neighbor.2011, Adam Douglas, The Square Root of Negative Forty-Two, page 108:
  • They had taken on a subverse being and come out on top, and although they did not name what had killed them, it must have been a cosmic being of supreme power.2023, Adair Hart, The Final Evolution: Book 15 of The Evaran Chronicles:

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