different between subvert vs dilapidate

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English subverten, from Old French subvertir, from Latin subvert? (“to overthrow”, literally “to underturn, turn from beneath”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s?b?v??t/
• (US) enPR: s?bvûrt?, IPA^(key): /s?b?v?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Verb

subvert (third-person singular simple present subverts, present participle subverting, simple past and past participle subverted)

1. (transitive) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
   • , Book IV, Chapter XVIII

     This would be to subvert the principles and foundations of all knowledge.

2. (transitive) 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.

3. (transitive) To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).

Derived terms

• subversion
• subversive

Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from subvertising, by analogy with advert.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?bv??t/
• (US) enPR: s?b?vûrt, IPA^(key): /?s?bv?t/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t

Noun

subvert (plural subverts)

1. An advertisement created by subvertising.

Synonyms

• subvertisement

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin dilapid?tus, past participle of dilapid? (“I destroy with stones”), from dis (“intensifier”) + lapid? (“I stone”), from lapis (“stone”)

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /d??læp.?.de?t/, /d??læp.?.de?t/

Verb

dilapidate (third-person singular simple present dilapidates, present participle dilapidating, simple past and past participle dilapidated)

1. To fall into ruin or disuse.
2. (transitive) To cause to become ruined or put into disrepair.

   • If the bishop, parson, or vicar, etc., dilapidates the buildings, or cuts down the timber of the patrimony […]

   • 1883, George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist, chapter VI

     In the last days of autumn he had whitewashed the chalet, painted the doors, windows, and veranda, repaired the roof and interior, and improved the place so much that the landlord had warned him that the rent would be raised at the expiration of his twelvemonth's tenancy, remarking that a tenant could not reasonably expect to have a pretty, rain-tight dwelling-house for the same money as a hardly habitable ruin. Smilash had immediately promised to dilapidate it to its former state at the end of the year.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To squander or waste.
   • 1692, Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses

     The patrimony of the bishopric of Oxon was much dilapidated.

Related terms

• lapidate

Translations

Italian

Verb

dilapidate

1. second-person plural present indicative of dilapidare
2. second-person plural imperative of dilapidare
3. feminine plural of dilapidato