perpetrate
to commit: to perpetrate a crime.
to present, execute, or do in a poor or tasteless manner: Who perpetrated this so-called comedy?
Origin of perpetrate
1Other words from perpetrate
- per·pe·tra·ble [pur-pi-truh-buhl], /ˈpɜr pɪ trə bəl/, adjective
- per·pe·tra·tion [pur-pi-trey-shuhn], /ˌpɜr pɪˈtreɪ ʃən/, noun
- per·pe·tra·tor, noun
- non·per·pe·tra·tion, noun
Words that may be confused with perpetrate
- perpetrate , perpetuate
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How to use perpetrate in a sentence
Anyone who perpetrates such an evil is mentally ill, almost by definition.
Frazier Glenn Miller Would Kill Every Jew Like Me | Hampton Stevens | April 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe man who perpetrates a villany, and resolves to go on with it, shows not the compunction I show.
Clarissa, Volume 6 (of 9) | Samuel RichardsonAunt Ruyvenaer here perpetrates the blunder, common among half-caste ladies, of mixing up two separate Dutch proverbs.
Small Souls | Louis CouperusNevertheless, he perpetrates in his own person the very fault which he discerns and corrects when he notes it in another!
Boating | W. B. WoodgateIf one nowadays perpetrates an original joke, one immediately afterward finds it in the Sanskirt.
An Old Town By The Sea | Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The one again and again perpetrates its misdeed, the other looks on horrified and suffers agonies.
Morals and the Evolution of Man | Max Simon Nordau
British Dictionary definitions for perpetrate
/ (ˈpɜːpɪˌtreɪt) /
(tr) to perform or be responsible for (a deception, crime, etc)
Origin of perpetrate
1usage For perpetrate
Derived forms of perpetrate
- perpetration, noun
- perpetrator, noun
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