dévoyer

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Equivalent to dé- + voie + -er.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /de.vwa.je/
  • (file)

Verb[edit]

dévoyer

  1. to mislead, to lead astray
  2. (takes a reflexive pronoun, 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[edit]

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'.

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