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verb
- 1. alter (something) from its original course, meaning, or state to a distortion or corruption of what was first intended: "he was charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice" Similar
noun
- 1. a person whose sexual behavior is regarded as abnormal and unacceptable.
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The meaning of PERVERT is to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt. How to use pervert in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Pervert.
to change something so that it is not what it was or should be, or to influence someone in a harmful way: Her ideas have been shamelessly perverted to serve the president's propaganda campaign. pervert the course of justice law UK. to act illegally to avoid punishment or to get the wrong person punished:
If you say that someone is a pervert, you mean that you consider their behaviour, especially their sexual behaviour, to be immoral or unacceptable.
Definitions of pervert. noun. a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior. synonyms: degenerate, deviant, deviate.
noun. a person who practices sexual perversion. Pathology. a person affected with perversion. a person who has been perverted, or turned from what is right, especially to a religious belief regarded as erroneous. pervert. verb. to use wrongly or badly. to interpret wrongly or badly; distort.
to change something so that it is not what it was or should be, or to influence someone in a harmful way: Her ideas have been shamelessly perverted to serve the president's propaganda campaign. pervert the course of justice law UK. to act illegally to avoid punishment or to get the wrong person punished:
verb. /pəˈvɜːt/ /pərˈvɜːrt/ Verb Forms. Idioms. pervert something to change a system, process, etc. in a bad way so that it is not what it used to be or what it should be. Some scientific discoveries have been perverted to create weapons of destruction. Take your English to the next level.