Synonyms of the word

pervert

• n. (dated) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense…
• n. A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable.
• v. (transitive) To turn another way; to divert.
• v. (transitive) To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to…
• v. To misapply; to misinterpret designedly.
• v. (intransitive) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

abuse

• n. Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice…
• n. Misuse; improper use; perversion.
• n. (obsolete) A delusion; an imposture; misrepresentation; deception.
• n. Coarse, insulting speech; abusive language; language that unjustly or angrily vilifies.
• n. (now rare) Catachresis.
• n. Physical maltreatment; injury; cruel treatment.
• n. Violation; defilement; rape; forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another, often on a…
• v. (transitive) To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose…
• v. (transitive) To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly.
• v. (transitive) To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner…
• v. (transitive) To imbibe a drug for a purpose other than it was intended; to intentionally take more of…
• v. (transitive, archaic) To violate; defile; to rape.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) Misrepresent; adulterate.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To deceive; to trick; to impose on; misuse the confidence of.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) Disuse.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

convolute

• v. (transitive) To make unnecessarily complex.
• v. (transitive) To fold or coil into numerous overlapping layers.
• adj. (botany, of a leaf) coiled such that one edge is inside, and one outside the coil, giving a spiral effect…

corrupt

• adj. In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
• adj. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
• adj. In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
• v. (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave;…
• v. (intransitive) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
• v. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.
• v. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

debase

• v. (transitive) To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To lower in position or rank.
• v. (transitive) To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.

debauch

• n. An individual act of debauchery.
• n. An orgy.
• v. (transitive) To morally corrupt (someone); to seduce.
• v. (transitive) To debase (something); to lower the value of (something).

degenerate

• adj. (of qualities) Having deteriorated, degraded or fallen from normal, coherent, balanced and desirable to…
• adj. (of a human or system) Having lost good or desirable qualities.
• adj. (of an encoding or function) Having multiple domain elements correspond to one element of the range.
• adj. (mathematics) A degenerate case is a limiting case in which a class of object changes its nature so as…
• adj. (physics) Having the same quantum energy level.
• n. One who is degenerate, who has fallen from previous stature.
• v. (intransitive) To lose good or desirable qualities.
• v. (transitive) To cause to lose good or desirable qualities.

demoralise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of demoralize.

demoralize

• v. (American) To destroy morale; to dishearten.

denote

• v. (transitive) To indicate; to mark.
• v. (transitive) To make overt.
• v. (transitive) To refer to literally; to convey meaning.

deprave

• v. (transitive) To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.
• v. (transitive) To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt.

deviant

• adj. Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.
• n. A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.
• n. A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.

deviate

• n. (sociology) A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
• n. (statistics) A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic…
• v. (intransitive) To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.

expend

• v. (transitive) to consume, exhaust (some resource).
• v. (transitive, rare, of money) to spend, disburse.

miscreant

• adj. Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous.
• adj. (theology) Holding an incorrect religious belief.
• n. One who has behaved badly, or illegally.
• n. One not restrained by moral principles; an unscrupulous villain.
• n. (theology) One who holds a false religious belief; a misbeliever.

misdirect

• v. To direct something wrongly.
• v. To put the incorrect address on a mail item.

misuse

• n. An incorrect, improper or unlawful use of something.
• v. (transitive) To use (something) incorrectly.
• v. (transitive) To abuse or mistreat (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To rape (a woman); later more generally, to sexually abuse (someone).
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To abuse verbally, to insult.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

profane

• adj. Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
• adj. Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
• adj. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
• adj. Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain.
• n. A person or thing that is profane.
• n. (freemasonry) A person not a Mason.
• v. (transitive) To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to…
• v. (transitive) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

refer

• v. (transitive) To direct the attention of.
• v. (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.
• v. (transitive) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause,…
• v. (intransitive, construed with to) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.
• v. (grammar) to be referential to another element in a sentence.
• v. (computing) To address a specific location in computer memory.

reprobate

• adj. (rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.
• adj. Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
• adj. Immoral, having no religious or principled character.
• n. One rejected by God; a sinful person.
• n. An individual with low morals or principles.
• v. To have strong disapproval of something; to condemn.
• v. Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
• v. To refuse, set aside.

sophisticate

• n. A worldly-wise person.
• v. To make less natural or innocent.
• v. To practice sophistry; change the meaning of, or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.
• v. To alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive.
• v. To make more complex or refined.
• adj. Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.

subvert

• v. (transitive) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
• v. (transitive) To pervert, as the mind, and turn it from the truth; to corrupt; to confound.
• v. (transitive) To upturn convention from the foundation by undermining it (literally, to turn from beneath).
• n. An advertisement created by subvertising.

twist

• n. A twisting force.
• n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
• n. The form given in twisting.
• n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
• n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
• n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
• n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
• n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
• n. An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
• n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See.
• n. A rotation of the body when diving.
• n. A sprain, especially to the ankle.
• n. (obsolete) A twig.
• n. (slang) A girl, a woman.
• n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
• n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
• n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
• n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
• v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
• v. To join together by twining one part around another.
• v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
• v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
• v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
• v. To turn a knob etc.
• v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
• v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
• v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
• v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
• v. (transitive) To cause to rotate.
• v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
• v. (transitive) To coax.
• v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.

use

• n. The act of using.
• n. (uncountable, followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit.
• n. A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
• n. Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
• n. (obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
• n. (archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
• n. (obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
• n. (religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese.
• n. (forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward…
• v. To accustom; to habituate.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To become accustomed (to), to accustom oneself (to).
• v. (transitive) To employ; to apply; to utilize.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To behave, act, comport oneself.
• v. (transitive, often with up) To exhaust the supply of; to consume by employing.
• v. (transitive) To exploit.
• v. (dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
• v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually do; to be wont to do.
• v. (intransitive, past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to.
• v. (transitive, with auxiliary could) To need; to benefit from.
• v. (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.

vitiate

• v. (transitive) to spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something.
• v. (transitive) to debase or morally corrupt.
• v. (transitive, archaic) to violate, to rape.
• v. (transitive) to make something ineffective, to invalidate.