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[pur-pi-treyt]

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verb (used with object), -trat·ed, -trat·ing.

to commit: to perpetrate a crime.

to present, execute, or do in a poor or tasteless manner: Who perpetrated this so-called comedy?

Origin:
1540–50; < Latin perpetrātus (past participle of perpetrāre to carry out, execute, perform), equivalent to per- per- + -petr- (combining form of patrāre to father, bring about; see pater) + -ā- theme vowel + -tus past participle suffix; see -ate¹

Related forms

per·pe·tra·ble

[pur-pi-truh-buhl] , adjective

per·pe·tra·tion, noun

per·pe·tra·tor, noun

non·per·pe·tra·tion, noun

un·per·pe·trat·ed, adjective

Can be confused: perpetrate, perpetuate.

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To address that discomfort, he decides to perpetrate a hoax on the unsuspecting art community.

They could still perpetrate the crisis predicted by the alarmists.

In a few cases, such as the study linking autism and childhood vaccination, an individual is able to perpetrate outright fraud.

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To address that discomfort, he decides to perpetrate a hoax on the unsuspecting art community.

They could still perpetrate the crisis predicted by the alarmists.

In a few cases, such as the study linking autism and childhood vaccination, an individual is able to perpetrate outright fraud.

Vote fraud is no doubt easiest to perpetrate in regions dominated by one party.

They belong in prison for the fraud they've tried to perpetrate.

We separate ourselves into groups and therefore perpetrate violence against each other.

But false claims of innocence play directly into the hands of those who perpetrate injustice against the guilty.

The main aim should be to make frauds easier to detect and harder to perpetrate.

Those of us who are working in this field are not trying to perpetrate some myths on our patients.

No, it provides cover for them to perpetrate their fraud even more.

What follies electorates perpetrate can be offset in future elections.

Mailer's case, his compulsion seems to have been to perpetrate a potboiler.

The case against the banks accuses them of conspiring with the family to help perpetrate a fraud.

They were also beginning to perpetrate heinous acts of violence in areas that had never experienced such things before.

Perhaps that was the sponsors' fiendish intent: to perpetrate the ultimate blurring of the line between advertising and content.

Those who perpetrate such acts are often found to be without guilt about their antisocial behavior.

To compound this they are bringing in carbon tax, using the green as a wedge to perpetrate themselves in government.

It is a crime against humanity to perpetrate such a horrible future upon.

Madoff used only a handful of longtime employees to perpetrate the fraud.

As with the general population, there are going to be people that perpetrate and are victims of violence and abuse.

Most of the people who perpetrate these crimes are unstable anyway.

The biggest crime that the people who are being moved out perpetrate is poverty in a materialist society.

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World English Dictionary

perpetrate (ˈpɜːpɪˌtreɪt)

—vb
	(tr) to perform or be responsible for (a deception, crime, etc)

[C16: from Latin perpetrāre, from per- (thoroughly) + patrāre to perform, perhaps from pater father, leader in the performance of sacred rites]

usage Perpetrate and perpetuate are sometimes confused: he must answer for the crimes he has perpetrated (not perpetuated); the book helped to perpetuate (not perpetrate) some of the myths surrounding his early life

perpe'tration

—n

'perpetrator

—n

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Word Origin & History

perpetrate

mid-15c., from L. perpetratus, pp. of perpetrare "to perform, to accomplish," from per- "completely" + patrare "carry out," originally "bring into existence," from pater "father" (see father). Neither good nor bad in Latin, first used in English in statutes, hence its sense

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of "to perform criminally."

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perpetrate definition

[ˈpɚpətret]

in.
to pose; to pretend. : Look at her clothes. Have you ever seen anyone perpetrate like that?

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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