Pervert

Definition: Pervert

Pervert

Noun

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

Verb

1. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women".

2. Change the meaning of.

3. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pervert" was first used: sometime around 1380. (references)

Note: Pervert \Per*vert"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Perverted; Perverting.]. (references)

Synonyms: Pervert

Continuance in action

Convert, pervert, renegade, apostate.

Deterioration

Pervert, demoralize, brutalize; render vicious.

Falsehood

Misstate, misquote, miscite, misreport, misrepresent; belie, falsify, pervert, distort; put a false construction upon; (misinterpret)

Misinterpretation

Misrepresent, pervert; explain wrongly, misstate; garble; (falsify); distort, detort; travesty, play upon words; stretch the sense, strain the sense, stretch the meaning, strain the meaning, wrest the sense, wrest the meaning; explain away; put a bad construction on, put a false construction on; give a false coloring.

Misteaching

Verb: misinform, misteach, misdescribe, misinstruct, miscorrect; misdirect, misguide; pervert; put on a false scent, throw off the scent, throw off the trail; deceive; mislead; (error); misrepresent; lie; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces.

Reasoning,

Pervert, quibble; equivocate, mystify, evade, elude; gloss over, varnish; misteach; mislead; (error); cavil, refine, subtilize, split hairs; misrepresent; (lie).

Tergiversation

Turn coat, turn tippet; rat, apostate, renegade; convert, pervert; proselyte, deserter; backslider; blackleg, crawfish, scab, mugwump, recidivist.

Crosswords: Pervert

Maybe it was a pervert or a deformed kid or something (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

I can think of a couple of reasons the pervert! (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

That's me -- call me crazy, call me a pervert, but this is something I enjoy (Boogie Nights; writing credit: Paul Thomas Anderson.)

Look, pervert, prude, it's not my job to label people (Night Court; writing credit: Artur Makarov)

Yeah, you're a pervert! (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

The Pervert (1963)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Music

• With Intent to Pervert [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "pervert": be pervert ♦ become pervert. Additional references.

Albanian

prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), përdor për keq, zvetënon, shtrembëroj kuptimin, njeri i zvetënuar, njeri i prishur, çorodit (bamboozle, disorient, disorientate, pose), çorodis (bamboozle, disorient, disorientate, pose). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نحل (attenuate, decompose, degenerate, disband, disentangle, disintegrate, dissolve, emaciate, loosen, melt, pine, resolve, slim, thin, unravel, untie, unwind), ‏تفسد أخلاقه, ‏ضل (astray, err, lead astray, maunder, mislead, petering, seduce, stray), ‏المنحرف مائل, ‏المنحرف شاذ, ‏المارق, ‏إنحرف (astrict, deflect, depart, deviate, deviate from, diverge, divert, drift, incline, jibe, jump, nose, sidetrack, skew, slew, slue, squint, stray, swerve, swing, turn, veer), ‏شوه (assassinate, blemish, color, colour, deface, defile, deform, denigrate, distort, falsify, garble, harm, maim, mangle, mar, misrepresent, mutilate, queer, skew, slant, slur, spoil, tinker, torment, torture, twist, warp, wrench). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ренегат (apostate, renegade, turnabout, turnaround, turncoat), развращавам (corrupt, debauch, defile), вероотстъпник (apostate), опорочавам (corrupt, defile, vitiate), покварявам (corrupt, demoralize, deprave, subvert, taint), погрешно насочвам, погрешно прилагам, погрешно използувам, полово извратен човек, извращавам (contort, deform, distort, strain, wrench), извратен човек, изопачавам (become distorted, bend, color, colour, contort, corrupt, deform, distort, falsify, mangle, mutilate, torture, travesty, turn about, twist), дегенерат (degenerate). (various references)

Chinese 

� �落者. (various references)

Czech

převrátit (bend over, invert, overthrow, overturn, turn over, turn up, Upend, upset), překroutit (distort, falsify, garble, misinterpret, misrepresent, skew, twist, wrench), zvrhlík (degenerate), svést (allure, conduct, debauch, misguide, seduce), renegát (renegade, turncoat, turn-coat), odpadlík (apostate, defector, dropout, renegade, turncoat, vert). (various references)

Farsi 

منحرف کردن (Alienate, Bend, Calloff, Deflect, Divert, Shunt, Swerve, Warp, Wring), منحرف (Aberrant, Amiss, Astray, Awry, Deviant, Devious, Hellbent, Lost, Oblique, Perverse, Skew), مرتد (Apostate, Heretic, Heterodox, Relapse, Renegade), گمراه شدن (Err, Stray), ازراه راست بدرکردن , بدراه . (various references)

Finnish

vääristää (bend, distort, make crooked, twist). (various references)

French

pervertir, perverti sexuel, fausser, dépraver, dénaturer, déformer, apostat. (various references)

German

verdrehen (adjust, contort, Crick, distort, juggling, misrepresent, roll, skew, sprain, to contort, to distort, to misrepresent, to pervert, to sophisticate, to twist, twist, wrench), pervertieren (become perverted, to pervert, warp). (various references)

Greek 

φαύλοσ (corrupt, flagitious, nefarious, reprobate, scoundrelly, sinister, unrighteous, vicious, vile, villain, villainous, wanton, wicked), διεστραμμένοσ (aberrant, bestial, crooked, cross-grained, distorted, perverse, perverted), διαστρέφω (belie, contort, distort, garble, twist, vitiate, warp, wrench), διαστρεβλώ. (various references)

Hebrew 

מומר (apostate, convert, proselyte, renegade), לקפח (deprive, ruin, strike, take by force), לעות (contort, corrupt, distort, falsify, strain, subvert, twist, warp), לעקוש (distort), ל�"שחית (corrupt, damage, debase, debauch, deprave, destroy, mangle, spoil, vitiate), ל�"עוות (corrupt, distort, twist), לסלף (distort, falsify, garble, misrepresent, parody, skew, twist, wrench, wrest), לסטות (deviate, diverge, go astray, robbery, stray, turn aside, wayward), סורר (corrupt, disloyal, intractable, rebellious, untoward), � לוז (aberrant, crooked, deviate). (various references)

Hungarian

hitehagyott (adulterous, apostate, renegade), fajtalan egyén. (various references)

Indonesian

orang yang bersifat tak wajar. (various references)

Italian

pervertito, pervertire (become perverted, debauch), corrompere (become corrupted, bribe, buy, corrupt, debauch, deprave, pollute, putrefy, rot, seduce, taint). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

痴漢 (masher, molester). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

へ�"たい (abnormality, formation, metamorphosis, transformation), とうさくしゃ, ちか�" (flaccid, masher, molester, relaxation, substitute). (various references)

Korean 

배교자. (various references)

Manx

cleaynagh (addict, attractive, circumventory, coaxing, deviationist, inclinable, inclining, slopewise, tempter, witching), chyndaa er shaghryn, cassey (change, curl, distort, flick, flounce, involve, screw, spin, squirm, swing, swirl, tangle, turn, turn over, twist, warp, whip-round, wrench, wring), cammaghey (crook, distort, inflect, twist). (various references)

Pig Latin

ervertpay.(various references)

Portuguese

transviado. (various references)

Romanian

perverti (corrupt, debauch, sophisticate), strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate, wreck), rãstãlmãci (distort, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand, spell backward), interpreta greşit (gloss, misconstrue, misinterpret, misread, misunderstand), folosi greşit (misapply, misemploy, misuse), duce pe cãi greşite, denatura (angle, denaturalize, denature, distort, falsify, give false colour to, mangle, misrepresent, palter with, sophisticate, torture, transfigure, warp, wrest), degrada (abase, bastardize, break, come down, debase, degrade, depreciate, dilapidate, gradate, grade, reduce to the ranks, waste), corupe (bribe, contaminate, corrupt, debauch, deprave, empoison, infect, seduce, sophisticate, spoil, suborn, taint, vitiate), înrãutãţi (deteriorate, embitter, worsen). (various references)

Russian 

совращать, развращать (corrupt, debauch, defile, deprave, pollute), вводить в заблуждение (decoy, delude, hoodwink, lead into error, misguide, mislead, set wrong), искажать (contort, defeature, deprave, distort, distort with, falsify, garble, misrepresent, misstate, mutilate, skew, strain, vitiate), извращенный человек, извращать извращенец, извращать (sophisticate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pokvarenjak, razvratnik (debauch, debauchee), izopačiti (distort, garble, vitiate). (various references)

Spanish

pervertido (deviant, perverted, wry). (various references)

Swedish

fördärva (corrupt, deflower, deprave, destroy, flaw, foozle, hash, Mar, perish, queer, ruin, undo, vitiate). (various references)

Turkish

sapık (aberrant, Dotty, perverse, perverted, unnatural, wacky), din değiştirmiş kimse, bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), baştan çıkarmak (allure, corrupt, debauch, deprave, entice, entice away, inveigle, lead astray, misguide, seduce, tempt, wile), ayartmak (allure, beguile, bribe, carry away, corrupt, debauch, delude, demoralize, deprave, draw in, entice, entrap, incite, instigate, intrigue, inveigle, lead astray, lead on, lure, sacret, seduce, soap down, tamper with, tempt, wile), çarpıtmak (angle, color, colour, contort, distort, garble, make awry, make crooked, skew, slant, strain, torture, twist, warp, wrench, wrest, wring). (various references)

Ukrainian

розбещувати (corrupt, debauch, demoralize, deprave, filth, poison, pollute, prostitute, subvert, vitiate), розбещена людина, відступник (apostate, defector, seceder, secessionist), перекручувати (bedevil, contort, deform, disguise, distort, garble, kink, misconstrue, mutilate, sophisticate, torture, travesty, warp, wrest, wring). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người hư hỏng, người bỏ đảng kẻ trái thói về tình dục, người bỏ đạo (apostate), người đ�"i truỵ kẻ lầm đường. (various references)

Welsh

gwyrdroi (distort). (various references)

corrumpam, corrumpantur, corrumpas, corrumpet, corrumpetur, corrumpit, corrumpitur, corrumpunt, corruperat, corruperunt, corrupimus, corrupit, corrupta, corruptae, corruptam, corruptaque, corrupti, corrupto, corruptorum, corruptum, corruptus, depravant, depravat, depravatum, depravatus, pervertere. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "pervert": perverted, pervertedly, pervertedness, pervertednesses, perverter, perverters, perverting, perverts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pervert" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hervert, Kervern, Pavitra, Peover, Perberton, Perdeeta, perer, Perfrx, Perger, perve, Perver, perverb, pervers, perverty, perwert, peuvent, Peveit, pever, pevero, pevert, Porfert, prevert, prevest, prevet, Purver. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: perter, revert.

-2 letters: evert, peter, revet.

-3 letters: ever, peer, pert, pree, rete, tree, veep, veer, vert.

-4 letters: ere, err, eve, pee, per, pet, ree, rep, ret, rev, tee, vee, vet.

-5 letters: er, et, pe, re.

+1 letter: overpert, perverts.

+2 letters: perverted, perverter, pretravel, preventer, privateer.

+3 letters: overreport, perversity, perverters, perverting, preharvest, preventers, privateers, reparative, resorptive.

+4 letters: overoperate, overprinted, overpromote, overprotect, overreports, overtrumped, perseverate, pervertedly, preharvests, preparative, prerogative, prevaricate, privateered, procreative, reprivatize, reprobative.

+5 letters: interpretive, interruptive, irrespective, overoperated, overoperates, overpromoted, overpromotes, overprotects, overreported, peradventure, performative, perseverated, perseverates, perversities, preinterview, preoperative, preparatives, prerogatived, prerogatives, prescriptive, preservation, preservative, prevaricated, prevaricates, privateering, recuperative, reprivatized, reprivatizes, reproductive.