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say it: pur-VUR-zhuhn
perversion is a noun meaning "a curve that reverses the direction of something". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a curve that reverses the direction of something
“the tendrils of the plant exhibited perversion”
“perversion also shows up in kinky telephone cords”
an aberrant sexual practice
the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use)
“it was a perversion of justice”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for perversion come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.