verb
- Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.
- usage: "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children"; "corrupt the morals"
- Practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive.
- usage: "Don't twist my words"
- synonyms: twist, twist around, pervert, convolute, sophisticate
- Change the inherent purpose or function of something.
- usage: "Don't abuse the system"; "The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers"
adjective
- Used of sexual behavior. ( showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes)
- usage: "kinky sex"; "perverted practices"
- synonyms: kinky
- Having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented.
- usage: "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem"
- synonyms: distorted, misrepresented, twisted
- Deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good.
- usage: "depraved criminals"; "a perverted sense of loyalty"; "the reprobate conduct of a gambling aristocrat"
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