pervert
pronunciation
How to pronounce pervert in British English:
UK [pəˈvɜːt , ˈpɜːvɜːt]
How to pronounce pervert in American English:
US [pərˈvɜːrt , ˈpɜːrvɜːrt]
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- Noun:
- a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
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- Verb:
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
- change the inherent purpose or function of something
Word Origin
- pervert
- pervert: see verse
- pervert (v.)
- c. 1300 (transitive), "to turn someone aside from a right religious belief to a false or erroneous one," from Old French pervertir "pervert, undo, destroy" (12c.) and directly from Latin pervertere "overthrow, overturn," figuratively "to corrupt, subvert, abuse," literally "turn the wrong way, turn about," from per- "away" (see per) + vertere "to turn" (see versus). Related: Perverted; perverting. Replaced native froward, which embodies the same image. Old English had mishweorfed "perverted, inverted," an identical formation to the Latin word using native elements.
- pervert (n.)
- 1660s, "one who has forsaken a doctrine or system regarded as true, apostate," from pervert (v.). Psychological sense of "one who has a perversion of the sexual instinct" is attested from 1897 (Havelock Ellis), originally especially of homosexuals.
Example
- 1. Go home and lick the doll , you sick pervert !
- 2. He must be some street pervert .
- 3. In that case , you 're a pervert .
- 4. Does god pervert justice ? Or does the almighty pervert righteousness ?
- 5. Does god pervert justice ? Does the almighty pervert what is right ?