PERVERT


Meaning of PERVERT in English

(~ed)

1.

If you ~ 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 ~ our constitution...

VERB: V n disapproval

2.

If someone ~s 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 ~ the course of justice.

PHRASE: V inflects

3.

If you say that someone is a ~, you mean that you consider their behaviour, especially their sexual behaviour, to be immoral or unacceptable.

N-COUNT disapproval

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