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Evert vs Subvert - What's the difference?

evert | subvert |

As a proper noun evert

is .

As a verb subvert is

to overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.

As a noun subvert is

an advertisement created by subvertising.

evert

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To turn inside out, typically from within, like a pocket being emptied.

    • Conjugation

    (en-conj-simple)

    Related terms

    * eversion

    Anagrams

    *

    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