Subvert vs Circumvent - What's the difference?
subvert | circumvent |
To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
* Shakespeare
* John Locke
To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
to avoid or get around something; to bypass
to surround or besiege
to outwit or outsmart
In transitive terms the difference between subvert and circumvent
is that subvert is to upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath) while circumvent is to outwit or outsmart.As a noun subvert
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) subverten, from (etyl) subvertir, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- He razeth your cities, and subverts your towns.
- This would subvert the principles of all knowledge.
- A dictator stays in power only as long as he manages to subvert the will of his people.