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.