subverse
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 8
Definition of subverse
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(obsolete, transitive)To subvert.
“But a usurping ape, with guile suborned, / Had all subversed”
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verb
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(obsolete, transitive)To subvert.
“But a usurping ape, with guile suborned, / Had all subversed”
noun
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A kind of alternative universe.
“You must be picking up olfactory emanations from a subverse destined to be your neighbor.”
“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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin subversus, past participle of subvertere. See subvert.
Words you can make from subverse
96 playable · top: SUBSERVE (13 pts)
Best play subserve 13 points7-letter words
2 words6-letter words
9 words5-letter words
24 words4-letter words
32 words- VERB 9 pts
- ERUV 7 pts
- EVER 7 pts
- EVES 7 pts
- REVS 7 pts
- SEVS 7 pts
- VEER 7 pts
- VEES 7 pts
- BEER 6 pts
- BEES 6 pts
- BREE 6 pts
- BURS 6 pts
- BUSS 6 pts
- REBS 6 pts
- RUBE 6 pts
- RUBS 6 pts
- SUBS 6 pts
- URBS 6 pts
- ESES 4 pts
- ESSE 4 pts
- REES 4 pts
- RUES 4 pts
- RUSE 4 pts
- SEER 4 pts
- SEES 4 pts
- SERE 4 pts
- SERS 4 pts
- SUER 4 pts
- SUES 4 pts
- SURE 4 pts
- USER 4 pts
- USES 4 pts
3-letter words
23 words2-letter words
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