(v. t.) To turn form the original or plain meaning; to pervert; to wrest.
Example Sentences:
(1) Surgery, detortional casts, and corrective footwear are discussed.
(2) The developed procedure of surgical intervention integrates the methods of intervention which were earlier applied by many authors and includes: correcting intertrochanteric detortion-variative osteotomies of femur, tunneling and biostimulation of neck and epiphysis of femoral head by allogenic osseous matrix and cortical transplants, by administration of chemotrypsin into epiphysis, decompression of hip joint with subsequent restorative-conservative treatment.
(3) If testicular torsion is present, the testicle must be detorted and orchiopexy performed as soon as possible for fertility to be maintained.
Pervert
Definition:
(v. t.) To turnanother way; to divert.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.
(n.) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, especially in religion; -- opposed to convert. See the Synonym of Convert.
Example Sentences:
(1) He denies perverting the course of justice by asking his then wife Vicky Pryce to take speeding penalty points onto her driving licence.
(2) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
(3) Indonesia’s largest Muslim group, Nahdlatul Ulama, in February described gay lifestyles as perverted and a desecration of human dignity.
(4) "Pulpit poofs" were hounded from the church, playground workers were exposed as "lesbians plotting to pervert nursery tots", celebrities such as Kenny Everett, Russell Harty and Freddie Mercury were hounded as diseased vermin.
(5) On the face of it, Huhne's guilty plea last month on a charge of perverting the course of justice over a 2003 speeding case ought to have killed the Liberal Democrats' hopes of holding the seat.
(6) Following an eight-month trial, Brooks was in June cleared at the Old Bailey of conspiring to hack phones, illegal payments to a public official and perverting the course of justice.
(7) For instance Alive appealed to young men who liked true adventure stories, but my next book, Polonaise , was a novel about a sexually perverted Polish intellectual.
(8) Milonov later tweeted that "completely boycotting" the show was not necessary, but said the "pervert from Austria" should be excluded.
(9) The pair were given identical jail terms for perverting the course of justice on Monday afternoon following a sentencing and mitigation hearing at which they spent almost three hours sitting just over a metre apart in the dock without acknowledging the other's presence.
(10) Jimmy Savile was left free to sexually attack nearly 70 victims, including one five-year-old, over half a century in his home city of Leeds despite rumours among local police officers that he was a "pervert".
(11) Sampson recommended that the junior officer who had carried out the destruction be granted immunity from prosecution in return for giving evidence against the MI5 chief and his deputy, whom he believed should be prosecuted for “doing an act with intent and tending to pervert the course of public justice”.
(12) Six others face one charge of conspiring to pervert the course of justice, including her husband Charlie, her former personal assistant Cheryl Carter and her ex-chauffeur Paul Edwards.
(13) He directed them to acquit Payne of manslaughter and of intending to pervert the course of justice.
(14) We are going to mourn our dead ... but tomorrow, we will kiss each other like the abominable perverts we are,” journalist Luc Vaillant said in a column published in the left-wing newspaper Libération.
(15) He was found guilty in his absence in 2008 for theft, furnishing false information and perverting the course of justice after being accused of perpetrating a £36m fraud.
(16) Dave Small, who was elected to Redditch borough council on Friday, faces being kicked out of the party for referring to gay people as "perverts" and African immigrants as "scroungers".
(17) Here we have an allegation of suborning witnesses and perverting the course of justice.
(18) Fillery is arrested on suspicion of attempting to pervert the course of justice.
(19) Fulford is the presiding judge in the trial scheduled for later this year in which former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks faces charges of perverting the course of justice.
(20) So hopefully that makes it clear, I would never support Manchester United but I would pretend to be a pervert dad having sex with an imaginary adult daughter.