to pervert
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7.2
- verb
- /pərˈvɜrt/
:
pervertir
- But the Democratic Party could certainly pervert those principles into policies I didn't recognize.
Second, it masks and perverts a basic reality.
- Second, it masks and perverts a basic reality.
- But see, Hollywood perverts the rules, right?
- It's not true when religious ideation is perverted, it perverts in the direction of power.
- It does pervert the unchangeable, but it perverts it.
- The term has kind of been perverted.
- It tends to twist and darken and degrade and and and pervert anything that was once maybe in beautiful or interesting.
Examples
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But democratic reformers rejoined that the revolution's doctrine of nonintervention had been perverted.
Academic text (2001) -
Corporations like Globodyne pervert the American dream,
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This man has been brought here as one who perverts the law.
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But see, Hollywood perverts the rules, right?
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Were he and the clinic being dragged into some sort of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice?
Fiction book (1996) -
A society where justice is perverted is endangered.
Academic text (1995) -
Saying that evolution is the "central" or "fundamental" concept in biology perverts the meanings of those terms.
Blog text (4) -
But we've built this hierarchy of status which perverts and distorts all of society.
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The greed inherent in the system perverted valuations and qualified the unqualified.
Blog text (12) -
The new policy could pervert the original intention of protecting the environment by prioritizing profit.
Synonyms
183
4.3
To use something in a way that harms
144
6.3
To change what someone said to make it mean something different, often to mislead
97
4.6
To change facts so they become false or misleading
60
3.9
To do something wrong with money, objects, or power
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7.4
To change facts or stories so they are not true
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6.4
Change words or facts to make a person look bad
Antonyms
How Distorted
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pervert comes from the Latin parts per- 'completely' and vertere 'to turn', so it originally meant to 'turn completely' something away from its true form. That's why to pervert a law, idea, or fact is to twist or change it from its original purpose.