Subverted is a term that can refer to the act of overturning, sabotaging, undermining, or corrupting something (e.g., a system, a belief, a tradition, a relationship, a plot). Depending on the context, synonyms for subverted might include terms such as disrupted, destabilized, reversed, perverted, adulterated, invalidated, distorted, modified, transformed, or hijacked. For example, one could say that a social movement subverted the status quo, or that a hacker subverted a computer system. Alternatively, one could say that an ideology was subverted by its own followers, or that a story was subverted by a sudden plot twist. Overall, subverted implies a significant change or deviation from the norm or original intention.