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Perversed

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

(obsolete) Split off; isolated; unconnected..

Definitions by Sense

  1. (obsolete) Split off; isolated; unconnected.
  2. Distorted; changed for the worse.
  3. Perverted; morally wrong; wicked; corrupt.
  4. Contrary;vexing; wayward.
  5. simple past and past participle of perverse

Example Sentences

He describes the people of Maine in these words: "Magistrates, Husbandmen or Planters and fishermen; of the magistrates some be royalists, the rest perversed spirits, the like are the planters and fishers, of which some be planters and fishers both, others meer fishers; there are but few handscraftmen, and no shopkeepers; English goods being kept by the Massachusetts merchants, here and there, on the coast, at a profit of one per cent. in exchange for fish."
A dull, heavy headache is frequently present, cutaneous sensibility of often perversed sharp pains, numbness, itching, etc.
Sexuality is perversed when it is reduced to one of its separate components.
Such a condition indicates perversed physiological function or pathology, or possibly the two combined, and may have origin in the gastro-intestinal tract, the cardio-vascular, cardio-renal, respiratory, or any other system in the body.
The patient becomes listless, sluggish, irritable, perversed in desires, unreasonable and passes through varied stages of mental decay to ultimate insanity.
The democracy distilled and diluted by these repressive organs has to be perversed democracy.
As regards the type of metabolism peculiar to it, this protein is similar to the primitive live substance, the difference between them being that the cancerous protein has the faculty of forming tumorous cells that retain in the cellular stage the perversed type of metabolism characterized by the predominance of growth over development (differentiation), resulting in an intense growth of the cancer cells.
We have to understand that images are reversed in a mirror and that certain things on earth have the same meaning in heaven. They are just reversed because this world is perversed.

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Related Words

perversedisjunctivedisjoinedinconnectedseparatedindivideddetachedseparatesegregateddisjunctunjoineddisconnectedunattachedinsociableunconnecteddeconnectedunparteduncoupledsundryabjunctive

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What does perversed mean?

Perversed means (obsolete) Split off; isolated; unconnected..

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What is the opposite of perversed?

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How do you use perversed in a sentence?

He describes the people of Maine in these words: "Magistrates, Husbandmen or Planters and fishermen; of the magistrates some be royalists, the rest perversed spirits, the like are the planters and fishers, of which some be planters and fishers both, others meer fishers; there are but few handscraftmen, and no shopkeepers; English goods being kept by the Massachusetts merchants, here and there, on the coast, at a profit of one per cent. in exchange for fish."

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