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Perv vs. Pervert

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Pervnoun

(slang) A pervert.

Pervertnoun

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

Pervverb

(slang) To stare at others in a perverted manner, especially whilst thinking sexual thoughts about them.

‘The soccer coach perved on one of the players as he undressed in the change room.’;

Pervertnoun

A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.

‘Those perverts were trying to spy on us while we changed clothes!’;

Pervertverb

(transitive) To turn another way; to divert.

Pervertverb

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

Pervertverb

To misapply; to misinterpret designedly.

‘pervert one's words’;

Pervertverb

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

Pervertverb

To turnanother way; to divert.

‘Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath.’;

Pervertverb

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.

‘He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve.’;

Pervertverb

To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

Pervertnoun

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

‘That notorious pervert, Henry of Navarre.’;

Pervertnoun

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

Pervertverb

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’;

Pervertverb

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

Pervertverb

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’;

Pervertverb

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

‘he was charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice’;

Pervertverb

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

‘Hector is a man who is simply perverted by his time’;

Pervertnoun

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

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