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perpetuate
[ per-pech-oo-eyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to enable or allow the continuation of into the future; keep alive (used most often in reference to something considered harmful or false): Vines obscured a plaque intended to perpetuate her memory.
Social media played a significant role in perpetuating political divisions.
Vines obscured a plaque intended to perpetuate her memory.
- to preserve from extinction or oblivion: perpetuate the species.
to perpetuate one's name;
perpetuate the species.
perpetuate
/ pəˈpɛtjʊˌeɪt /
verb
- tr to cause to continue or prevail
to perpetuate misconceptions
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Derived Forms
- perˌpetuˈation, noun
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Other Words From
- per·pet·u·a·ble adjective
- per·pet·u·a·tion [per-pech-oo-, ey, -sh, uh, n], per·pet·u·ance [per-, pech, -oo-, uh, ns], noun
- per·pet·u·a·tor noun
- un·per·pet·u·a·ble adjective
- un·per·pet·u·at·ing adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of perpetuate1
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
And while some sex workers turn to advocacy groups, even rape support organizations sometimes perpetuate stigma.
In Paris, a new generation of entrepreneurs are launching initiatives to perpetuate the Yiddish way of life.
Unused funds, sitting idle, do nothing to perpetuate the cycle of support that America relies on.
But religion also compels us to fight the unjust, prejudiced systems that cause and perpetuate that misfortune.
But it serves no one to perpetuate the idea that parenting is supposed to be an agonizing and thankless slog.
It is a very laudable spirit on the part of a dying man to wish to—ah—perpetuate these old English names.
I think this is a wicked, wicked war, waged to perpetuate slavery and to destroy the Union.
By perpetrating an act of injustice, which would perpetuate agitation.
What he wanted was to gain time, and perpetuate the war, even though waging an unequal contest.
That the animals selected for breed, should unite in themselves all the good qualities we wish to perpetuate in the offspring.
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