pervert
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (noun)
- (verb)
pervert (plural perverts)
- (dated) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense of values or morals.
- A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.
- Synonyms: perv
- Antonyms: normophile, convert
- 1951, J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 24:
- I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around.
- Those perverts were trying to spy on us while we changed clothes!
- French: pervers
- German: Perversling
- Italian: pervertito, pervertita
- Portuguese: pervertido
- Russian: извраще́нец
pervert (perverts, present participle perverting; past and past participle perverted)
- (transitive) To turn another way; to divert.
- Synonyms: divert, steer, veer
- (transitive) To corrupt; to cause to be untrue; corrupted or otherwise impure
- Synonyms: corrupt, lead astray
- How could stopping someone from killing himself or herself "pervert the course of justice"?
- To misapply, misuse, use for a nefarious purpose
- Synonyms: misapply, misuse
- He has perverted his talents to dishonest gain.
- to misinterpret designedly.
- Synonyms: twist
- pervert one's words
- (intransitive) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.
- Russian: извраща́ть
- Russian: извраща́ть
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