pervert
verb/pəˈvɜːt/
/pərˈvɜːrt/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they pervert | /pəˈvɜːt/ /pərˈvɜːrt/ |
| he / she / it perverts | /pəˈvɜːts/ /pərˈvɜːrts/ |
| past simple perverted | /pəˈvɜːtɪd/ /pərˈvɜːrtɪd/ |
| past participle perverted | /pəˈvɜːtɪd/ /pərˈvɜːrtɪd/ |
| -ing form perverting | /pəˈvɜːtɪŋ/ /pərˈvɜːrtɪŋ/ |
- 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.
- pervert somebody/something to affect somebody in a way that makes them act or think in an unacceptable or immoral way synonym corrupt
- Some people believe that television can pervert the minds of children.
Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb): from Old French pervertir, from Latin pervertere, from per- ‘thoroughly, to ill effect’ + vertere ‘to turn’. The current noun sense dates from the late 19th cent.
Idioms
See pervert in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarypervert the course of justice (British English)
(North American English obstruct justice)
- (law) to tell a lie or to do something in order to prevent the police, etc. from finding out the truth about a crimeTopics Crime and punishmentc2
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