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| NOUN: | One whose sexual behavior differs from the accepted norm: deviant, deviate. See USUAL, SEX. | | VERB: | 1. To use wrongly and improperly: abuse, misapply, misappropriate, mishandle, misuse. See TREAT WELL. 2. To ruin utterly in character or quality: animalize, bastardize, bestialize, brutalize, canker, corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralize, deprave, stain, vitiate, warp. See CLEAN, HELP. 3. To give an inaccurate view of by representing falsely or misleadingly: belie, color, distort, falsify, load, misrepresent, misstate, twist, warp, wrench, wrest. Idioms: give a false coloring to. See TRUE.
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