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Definition of pervert : 1. One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, especially in religion; - opposed to convert. See the Synonym of Convert.
2. To become perverted; to take the wrong course.
3. 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.
4. To turnanother way; to divert.

Synonyms:

mar, subvert, aggrieve, wrench, cast down, reproach, deject, sprain, undermine, sex, molest, convolute, taint, animalize, bribe, outrage, harm, step, twine, misappropriate, rail at, cloud, squirm, ruin, dismay, counteract, mislead, misdirect, color, true, overthrow, sophisticate, get down, flex, deviate, clean, belie, impair, load, bring down, dilute, sabotage, mistreat, writhe, abuse, malign, mishandle, vituperate, alloy, misrepresent, overturn, misemploy, bastardize, misapply, worm, doctor, wrestle, wrick, defame, prostitute, sully, vilify, wriggle, usual, grease one's palms, ravish, falsify, weaken, rick, misaddress, wrong, injure, convolve, upon, demoralise, turn, ill-use, violate, spoil, canker, clapperclaw, wrest, twist around, persecute, misuse, profane, brutalize, doctor up, disparage, stretch, dispirit, victimize, misstate, help, bestialize, damage, void, deflower, buy, revile, depress, ill-treat, countermine, slander, impose on _or_ oppress, stain, shout, misguide, defile, invalidate, lead astray, wind, maltreat, curve

bitch, hog, heel, pimp, blackguard, bad guy, lowlife, villain, rapscallion, miscreant, reprobate, traitor, devil, malingerer, criminal, jezebel, slattern, pig, shyster, degenerate, scamp, backslider, rascal, scoundrel, slut, tramp, swine, bastard, rogue, slob, knave, lecher

corrupt, degrade, maniac, distort, seduce, demoralize, adulterate, deform, vitiate, pedophile, debase, deprave, twist, abase, desecrate, warp, psychopath, deviant, debauch

divert, study at debase

contort, disfigure, mangle, crook, bend

Usage examples:

• If a book be a good book, the worst of us can not do it much harm; nor do I believe there are more than a few in the profession who would condescend to give a false opinion upon the work of a rival; though doubtless personal feeling may pervert the judgment. - "Home Again", George MacDonald.
• But, allowing that discontent and faction may pervert the judgment of such venerable bodies in France, we have as good a right to suppose that the same causes may full as probably have produced from a private, however respectable person, that frightful, and, I trust I have shown, groundless representation of our own affairs in England. - "The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12)", Edmund Burke.
• 3. " If the emphasis be placed wrong, we shall pervert and confound the meaning wholly." - "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown.