Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French pervertir, from Latin pervertere to overturn, corrupt, pervert, from per- thoroughly + vertere to turn --
Pervert:
1 a : to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right or what is generally done or accepted b : one given to some form of sexual perversion c : an aberrant sexual practice especially when habitual and preferred to normal coitus d : someone which has these
characteristics and can act upon:
bastardize, bestialize, brutalize, corrupt, debauch, demoralize, deprave, warp