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say it: PUR-vurt
pervert is a verb and noun meaning "corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality". It carries 4 recorded senses.
corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
“debauch the young people with wine and women”
“Socrates was accused of corrupting young men”
“Do school counselors subvert young children?”
“corrupt the morals”
practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
“Don't twist my words”
change the inherent purpose or function of something
“Don't abuse the system”
“The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers”
a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
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 pervert 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.