Meaning

• 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.

  "Those perverts were trying to spy on us while we changed clothes!"

Meaning

• To turn another way; to divert.

• To corrupt; to cause to be untrue; corrupted or otherwise impure

  "How could stopping someone from killing himself or herself "pervert the course of justice"?"

• To misapply, misuse, use for a nefarious purpose

  "He has perverted his talents to dishonest gain."

• To misinterpret designedly.

  "pervert one's words"

• To become perverted; to take the wrong course.