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Pervert

To turnanother way; to divert.

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Broader term 13

Alter 76% connected

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Consume 76% connected

To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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Denote 76% connected

To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the…

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Deplete 76% connected

To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.

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Eat 76% connected

of Eat

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Exhaust 76% connected

To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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Expend 76% connected

To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend mon…

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Miscreant 76% connected

One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever.

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Modify 76% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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Refer 76% connected

To carry or send back.

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Reprobate 76% connected

Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.

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Use 76% connected

The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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Manner of action 7

Bastardize 76% connected

To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.

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Carnalize 76% connected

To make carnal; to debase to carnality.

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Fracture 76% connected

The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

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Infect 76% connected

Infected. Cf. Enfect.

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Poison 76% connected

Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a dea…

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Sensualize 76% connected

To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure.

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Suborn 76% connected

To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.

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Narrower term 9

Bugger 76% connected

One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.

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Fetishist 76% connected

A believer in fetiches.

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Lech 76% connected

To lick.

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Lecher 76% connected

A man given to lewdness; one addicted, in an excessive degree, to the indulgence of sexual desire, or to illicit commerce with women.

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Letch 76% connected

See Leach.

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Pederast 76% connected

One guilty of pederasty; a sodomite.

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Satyr 76% connected

A sylvan deity or demigod, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness.

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Sod 76% connected

of Seethe

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Sodomite 76% connected

An inhabitant of Sodom.

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Derivationally related 10

Degenerate 74% connected

Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base…

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Degenerate 74% connected

Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base…

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Degradation 74% connected

The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, th…

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Degradation 74% connected

The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, th…

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Misuse 74% connected

To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents.

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Misuse 74% connected

To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents.

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Sophistication 74% connected

The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs.

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Sophistication 74% connected

The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs.

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Sophistry 74% connected

The art or process of reasoning; logic.

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Sophistry 74% connected

The art or process of reasoning; logic.

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Synonym 17

Abuse 92% connected

To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to ma…

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Convolute 92% connected

Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in aestivation.

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Corrupt 92% connected

Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

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Debase 92% connected

To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to de…

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Debauch 92% connected

To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self b…

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Degenerate 92% connected

Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base…

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Demoralize 92% connected

To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in disciplin…

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Deprave 92% connected

To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.

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Deviant 92% connected

Deviating.

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Deviate 92% connected

To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.

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Misdirect 92% connected

To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies.

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Misuse 92% connected

To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents.

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Profane 92% connected

Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, rel…

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Sophisticate 92% connected

To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine.

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Subvert 92% connected

To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.

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Twist 92% connected

To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

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Vitiate 92% connected

To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exagger…

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