pervert
verb (used with object)
to affect with perversion.
is perverting
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present progressiveof pervert (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Encroachment by civilization is perverting the wilderness just as man is being perverted in response to the environment he's made for himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
I show, cleverly passing from chaos to the Olympic games, that Socrates is perverting the youth.
From Socrates by Frank J. Morlock
Another kind is, perverting a man’s words or actions disadvantageously by affected misconstruction.
From Sermons on Evil-Speaking by Isaac Barrow
This is perverting the Humour of the Original, and, in Effect, making a xviii new Work, instead of giving only a Translation.
From A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) by Alexander H. Chorney
No man likes his mother-in-law to say that he has married the keeper of an Italian eating-house, especially if the fact is correct; or that he is perverting his young children's trust money.
From Henry Fielding: a Memoir by G. M. Godden
