What is the difference between pervert and corrupt?
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(dated) 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.
To turn another way; to divert.
* Shakespeare
To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt.
* Milton
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To misapply; to misinterpret designedly.
To become perverted; to take the wrong course.
In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
* Shakespeare
Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
* Knolles
To make ; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.
* , Genesis 6:12
To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.
To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.
* Bible, Matthew vi. 19
Corrupt is a synonym of pervert.
In transitive terms the difference between pervert and corrupt
is that pervert is to turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt while corrupt is to make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave; to pervert.In intransitive terms the difference between pervert and corrupt
is that pervert is to become perverted; to take the wrong course while corrupt is to become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.As a noun pervert
is one who has been perverted; one who has turned to error; one who has turned to a twisted sense of values or morals.As an adjective corrupt is
in a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.pervert
English
(wikipedia pervert)Noun
(en noun)- Those perverts were trying to spy on us while we changed clothes!
Usage notes
* In contemporary usage, pervert is usually understood to refer to a sexually perverted person. Traditionally the word was mainly associated with persons of false religious beliefs.Synonyms
* (sexually perverted person) deviant, perv (slang)Antonyms
* convert (religious)Verb
(en verb)- Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath.
- He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve.
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- pervert one's words
- (Testament of Love)
Synonyms
* (turn another way) divert, steer, veer * corrupt, lead astray * misapply, misuse * (take the wrong course)corrupt
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The government here is corrupt , so we'll emigrate to escape them.
- At what ease / Might corrupt' minds procure knaves as ' corrupt / To swear against you.
- The text of the manuscript is corrupt .
- It turned out that the program was corrupt - that's why it wouldn't open.
- Who with such corrupt and pestilent bread would feed them.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "corrupt" is often applied: practice, state, country, nation, regime, city, government, person, man, politician, leader, mayor, judge, member, minister, file, database, document, woman.Quotations
* , Genesis 6:11 *: The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.Synonyms
* corruptedVerb
(en verb)- Don't you dare corrupt my son with those disgusting pictures!
- And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
- (Francis Bacon)
- to corrupt language, or a holy text
- Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt .