Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“perverting” is a form of

pervert

UK /ˈpəː.vəːt/ · US /ˈpɚ.vɚt/ noun, verb

Forms perverts perverting perverted

  1. noun (dated) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, or adopted a twisted sense of values or morals.
  2. noun A person whose sexual habits are not considered acceptable. “Those perverts were trying to spy on us while we changed clothes!”
  3. verb (transitive) To turn another way; to divert.
  4. verb (transitive) 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"?”
  5. verb To misapply, misuse, use for a nefarious purpose “He has perverted his talents to dishonest gain.”
  6. verb to misinterpret designedly. “pervert one's words”
  7. verb (intransitive) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

Synonyms

perv divert steer veer corrupt lead astray seduce misapply misuse bias distort skew twist adulterate debauch demoralize detort file immoralize pollute deviant deviate degenerate subvert demoralise debase profane vitiate deprave misdirect

Antonyms

normophile fortify moralize purify rectify reform set aright spiritualize straighten out unpervert

Etymology

From Old French pervertir, itself from the Latin pervertō.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To turnanother way; to divert. [Obs.]
  2. verb To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt; also, to misapply; to misinterpret designedly; as, to pervert one's words.
  3. verb To become perverted; to take the wrong course. [R.] Testament of Love.
  4. noun One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, especially in religion; --opposed to convert. See the Synonym of Convert.

Etymology [F. pervertir, L. pervertere, perversum; per + vertere to turn. See Per-, and Verse.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “pervert”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “pervert” (best matches first).