# pervert

Pronunciation: say "PUR-vurt" US /ˈpɚ.vɚt/, UK /ˈpəː.vəːt/

## Noun

1. A person whose sexual habits are regarded as unacceptable.
   - Simple: A person who behaves in sexual ways that people think are wrong.
   - _Quit staring at her like some kind of pervert._
   - _The comments section was overrun by perverts posting crude remarks under every photo._

## Verb

Pronunciation: US say "pur-VURT" /pɚˈvɚt/; UK say "puh-VURT" /pəˈvəːt/

2. To corrupt someone or something, leading a person away from what is right, or misusing a thing or turning it to a wrong or wicked purpose so that it becomes false, impure, or unjust.
   - Simple: To spoil or misuse something, or lead someone into bad ways, so it is no longer right, honest, or fair.
   - _She was charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice after giving detectives a false alibi._
   - _Critics accused the propaganda ministry of perverting a whole generation of schoolchildren with lies about the war._
3. To deliberately put a false interpretation on something, such as another person's words.
   - Simple: To give a false meaning to something on purpose, such as someone's words.
   - _Her opponents perverted her speech about tax fairness, claiming she had promised to raise everyone's taxes._
   - _It is easy to pervert a quotation by cutting it off in the middle of a sentence._
4. To become corrupted or twisted and take the wrong course.
   - Simple: To become bad or wrong, or to go the wrong way.

## Noun

5. A person who has been corrupted or led astray, turning to error or taking on a twisted sense of values or morals. *(dated)*
   - Simple: A person who has turned to wrong beliefs or a twisted sense of right and wrong.

## Verb

Pronunciation: US say "pur-VURT" /pɚˈvɚt/; UK say "puh-VURT" /pəˈvəːt/

6. To turn something in another direction, so that it goes a different way. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To make something turn and go a different way.

## Origin

Latin pervertō passed into Old French as pervertir, and English borrowed it from there.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/pervert (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).