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Capsize vs Subvert - What's the difference?

capsize | subvert |

As verbs the difference between capsize and subvert

is that capsize is to overturn while subvert is to overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.

As a noun subvert is

an advertisement created by subvertising.

capsize

English

Verb

  • (nautical) To overturn.
  • (nautical) To cause (a ship) to overturn.
  • * Byron
    • But what if carrying sail capsize the boat?

    Synonyms

    * keel over * turn turtle

    Related terms

    * capsized * capsizer

    References

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    subvert

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) subverten, from (etyl) subvertir, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
  • * Shakespeare
    • He razeth your cities, and subverts your towns.
  • * John Locke
    • This would subvert the principles of all knowledge.
  • To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
    • A dictator stays in power only as long as he manages to subvert the will of his people.
  • To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
    • Derived terms
    * subversion * subversive

    Etymology 2

    , by analogy with advert.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An advertisement created by subvertising.
    • Synonyms
    * subvertisement