intervert

transitive verb

-ed/-ing/-s

1

obsolete : to turn to a course or use other than the proper one : misuse

especially : embezzle

2

obsolete : change, invert

Word History

Etymology

Latin intervertere, literally, to turn aside, from inter- + vertere to turn

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