pervert
verbVerb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they pervert | |
| he / she / it perverts | |
| past simple perverted | |
| past participle perverted | |
| -ing form perverting |
- pervert something
to change a system, process, etc. in a bad way so that it is not what it used to be or what it should be 败坏；使走样；误导；误用 - pervert somebody/something
to affect somebody in a way that makes them act or think in an unacceptable or immoral way 腐蚀；侵害；使堕落
Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb): from Old French pervertir, from Latin pervertere, from per- ‘thoroughly, to ill effect’ + vertere ‘to turn’. The current noun sense dates from the late 19th cent.
Idioms
pervert the course of justice (British English)
(North American English obstruct justice)
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law 法律 to tell a lie or to do something in order to prevent the police, etc. from finding out the truth about a crime 妨碍司法（如作伪证等）