pervert

Meanings

Noun

• One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense of values or morals.
• A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.

Verb

• To turn another way; to divert.
• To corrupt; to cause to be untrue; corrupted or otherwise impure
• To misapply, misuse, use for a nefarious purpose
• to misinterpret designedly.
• To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

Origin

• From Old French pervertir, itself from the Latin pervertō.