dévoyer

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French

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Etymology

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Equivalent to dé- + voie + -er.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /de.vwa.je/
  • Audio:(file)

Verb

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dévoyer

  1. to mislead, to lead astray
  2. (pronominal, figuratively) to go down the wrong path, to turn delinquent, to leave the straight and narrow
  3. (transitive, figurative) to twist, corrupt
    Synonym: pervertir
    • 2020 October 1, Simon Blin, quoting Emmanuel Macron, “Du «communautarisme» au «séparatisme», une mutation sémantique”, in Libération[1]:
      [] le communautarisme, «c’est le fait que dans certains endroits de notre République, il y a un séparatisme qui s’est installé, c’est-à-dire la volonté de ne plus vivre ensemble, de ne plus être dans la République, et au nom d’une religion, l’islam, en la dévoyant».
      [] communautarisme “is the fact that in certain parts of our Republic a separatism has taken hold, a wish to no longer live together, to no longer be part of the Republic- all in the name of one religion, Islam, and in a way that twists it”.

Conjugation

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This verb is part of a large group of -er verbs that conjugate like noyer or ennuyer. These verbs always replace the 'y' with an 'i' before a silent 'e'.

Derived terms

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Further reading

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