The verb is pronounced /pə(r)vɜ:(r)t/. The noun is pronounced /pɜ:(r)vɜ:(r)t/.
( perverted)
1.
If you pervert something such as a process or society, you interfere with it so that it is not as good as it used to be or as it should be. ( FORMAL )
Any reform will destroy and pervert our constitution...
VERB : V n [ disapproval ]
2.
If someone perverts the course of justice , they deliberately do something that will make it difficult to discover who really committed a particular crime, for example, destroying evidence or lying to the police. ( LEGAL )
He was charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice.
PHRASE : V inflects
3.
If you say that someone is a pervert , you mean that you consider their behaviour, especially their sexual behaviour, to be immoral or unacceptable.
N-COUNT [ disapproval ]