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to pervert

to pervert

9 7.9
Cause someone to do things that are morally wrong
  • verb
  • /pərˈvɜrt/
  • NSFW
translation icon : corromper
  • I'm paying you to give cello lessons, not to pervert my child.

It's not true when religious ideation is perverted, it perverts in the direction of power.

Examples

  • Such involvement will surely corrupt and pervert them.

    Academic text (2008)

  • Yet, he insists, despite these difficulties, monks who pervert their calling, even those who have risen into the ranks of supervisors or house leaders in the monastery, will face condemnation by God.

    Academic text (2004)

  • I think religion gets dangerous when it is perverted into a collectivist philosophy demanding that individuals sacrifice themselves for the good of society.

    Blog text (10)

  • They want to adopt the blockchain and they want to pervert it to surveil everything that you do.

  • The teacher was concerned that outside influences might pervert the values she was trying to instill in her students.

  • He's worried that violent video games could pervert young minds and lead to aggressive behavior.

  • Some argue that social media can pervert the way people communicate and interact with one another.

Synonyms

to corrupt
vsto pervert
125 4.5

To make someone act dishonestly, often by giving them money

is narrower in aiming to lead into sensual indulgence rather than bribery
to debase
vsto pervert
12 7.7

To make someone's morals worse by causing selfish or dishonest behaviour

refers to corrupting someone by leading them into improper acts
to debauch
vsto pervert
  • NSFW
3 9.9

To lead someone into too much drinking, sex, or other wrong acts

is about leading someone into immoral behaviour through such indulgence
to subvert
vsto pervert
3 8.4

To make someone behave in a morally wrong way

suggests causing moral change often by covert or persuasive means
to demoralize
vsto pervert
  • Formal
1 7.5

To make someone lose their sense of right and wrong

focuses on causing decline through encouragement rather than direct action
to deprave
vsto pervert
  • Formal
1 8.3

To make someone behave badly by giving them wrong ideas

focuses on leading into immorality via intemperance or sensuality
to profane
vsto pervert
1 8.4

To make people less moral by encouraging bad behaviour

is used for actively leading others into immoral conduct by excess
to vitiate
vsto pervert
  • Formal
9.9

Make a person lose moral strength or become corrupt

stresses causing moral weakness that then leads to improper behaviour

Antonyms

to purify
  • Formal
28 5.1

To make someone feel morally clean and free from guilt

to uplift
23 3.2

To make someone feel happier and more hopeful

How Corrupting

to deprave
  • Formal
1 8.3
to pervert
  • NSFW
9 7.9
to corrupt
125 4.5
to influence
591 2.2

Surface Forms

pervert infinitive
perverted past
perverted past participle
perverting present participle
perverts third person singular

Etymology

Pervert comes from Latin per- 'completely' plus vertere 'to turn', meaning to 'turn someone completely' away from good behaviour. That's why to pervert a person is to lead them into bad or improper actions.