to perpetrate
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8.4
- verb
- /ˈpɜːrpətreɪt/
:
cometer
- In Haiti, stories of violence perpetrated on citizens by the army were common.
- perpetrate violence
- perpetrate a crime
- perpetrate abuse
The biggest lie he's perpetrated is that he's a patriot, right?
- The biggest lie he's perpetrated is that he's a patriot, right?
- Yeah, and that's what you're afraid of transmitting and perpetrating on your children, right?
- This group would that was now going to perpetrate violence against innocent people.
- What the people who perpetrate the most evil do, right?
- Both Greek and Ottoman forces would continue to perpetrate mass slaughters as the war went on.
- And we said we wanted to get scrubs and we wanted to perpetrate scrub fraud, right?
- It's the prosperity gospel and this is how they have helped him perpetrate his long con.
- Well, that's one of the classic arguments about it, that it was perpetrated by the men.
- That person quite often grows up to be somebody who then perpetrates that same abuse on other people.
- A fourth market maker Got Bit it's CEO, and two of its directors are also charged for perpetrating a similar scheme.
- But you you can only forgive if you realize that whatever actions have been perpetrated are the effects of human unconsciousness.
- Disruptive or violent behaviour perpetrated on aircraft.
- And we would find the perpetrating part.
Examples
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Contrary to the dominant narrative, most child abductions are perpetrated by family members.
Academic text (2017) -
We believe this ruling to be one of the greatest wrongs the government's ever perpetrated.
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We're about to perpetrate some evil on the Champion City people.
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This industry, in my opinion, is an industry... that has perpetrated the biggest fraud on the American public in history.
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And no, I think that the degree of violence perpetrated against women and girls in this country is astonishingly high.
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Men have a long history of perpetrating a lot of pain through sexual avenues.
Fiction book (1997) -
There's been a fraud perpetrated here tonight.
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He was indicted for murder in the first degree while perpetrating a burglary.
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Moreover, these plaintiffs (and their lawyers) seem to be perpetrating a fraud on the court.
Academic text (1997) -
The hacker tried to perpetrate a cyber attack on the company to steal sensitive data.
Synonyms
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3.3
To do something illegal or wrong
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2.5
To do something against the law
Antonyms
How Serious
Surface Forms
Etymology
Perpetrate comes from an old Latin verb perpetrare, with the beginning per- meaning 'through' or 'completely', and it originally meant 'to carry through' or 'bring about'. So to perpetrate a crime is to 'carry it out' or commit it, which is why the word is used for harmful or illegal actions.