pervertverb [ T ]
uk/pəˈvɜːt/us/pɚˈvɝːt/disapprovingto change something so that it is not what it was or should be, or to influence someone in a harmful way:
Her ideas have been shamelessly perverted to serve the president's propaganda campaign.
The history teacher tried to pervert (= persuade into unacceptable sexual activity) the boys by showing them pornographic magazines.
pervert the course of justice
to act illegally to avoid punishment or to get the wrong person punished:
The two police officers were charged with perverting the course of justice by fabricating evidence in the trial.
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Changing
- a new broom sweeps clean idiom
- about-turn
- alter
- alternate
- alternation
- bastardize
- convert
- move on
- move the goalposts idiom
- move with the times idiom
- new
- new broom
- onto
- reverse
- swing
- transfigure
- transform
- transitional
- transmogrify
- transmute
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Obeying & breaking the law
pervertnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈpɜː.vɜːt/us/ˈpɝː.vɝːt/disapproving UK informal perva person whose sexual behaviour is considered strange and unpleasant by most people
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Strange, suspicious and unnatural things and people
- alien
- anomaly
- Dalek
- deviant
- fairy
- fish
- Frankenstein
- Martian
- monster
- mutant
- oddball
- oddity
- perv
- quirk
- screwball
- time traveller
- twilight
- twilight zone idiom
- wacko
- weirdo
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