Invert vs. Pervert — What's the Difference?

To turn inside out or upside down

Distort or corrupt the original course, meaning, or state of (something)

To reverse the position, order, or condition of

Lead (someone) away from what is considered natural or acceptable

To subject to inversion.

A person whose sexual behaviour is regarded as abnormal and unacceptable.

To be subjected to inversion.

To cause to turn away from what is right, proper, or good; debase

Something inverted.

To corrupt (someone) morally.

(Psychology) In early psychology, a person who displays behavior or attitudes considered typical of the opposite sex, including sexual attraction to members of one's own sex. No longer in scientific use.

To interpret incorrectly; misconstrue or distort

(transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.

A person whose sexual practices or interests are considered abnormal or deviant.

To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.

(dated) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense of values or morals.

To undergo inversion, as sugar.

A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.

To divert; to convert to a wrong use.

(transitive) To turn another way; to divert.

(anatomy) To turn (the foot) inwards.

(transitive) To corrupt; to cause to be untrue; corrupted or otherwise impure

A homosexual.

To misapply, misuse, use for a nefarious purpose

(architecture) An inverted arch (as in a sewer).

To misinterpret designedly.

The base of a tunnel on which the road or railway may be laid and used when construction is through unstable ground. It may be flat or form a continuous curve with the tunnel arch.

(intransitive) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

(civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.

To turnanother way; to divert.

(civil engineering) An elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.

To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt; also, to misapply; to misinterpret designedly; as, to pervert one's words.

A skateboarding trick where the skater grabs the board and plants a hand on the coping so as to balance upside-down on the lip of a ramp.

To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

(chemistry) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted.

One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, especially in religion; - opposed to convert. See the Synonym of Convert.

To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.

A person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

To change the position of; - said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.

Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality;

To divert; to convert to a wrong use.

Practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive

To undergo inversion, as sugar.

Change the inherent purpose or function of something;

Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar.

An inverted arch.

Make an inversion (in a musical composition);

Turn inside out or upside down