to perpetuate

Examples

• All

• The museum would instead create a middle-class base of patronage and a self-perpetuating cycle of artistic production.

  Academic text (1990)

• Theme parks at large are similarly criticized for perpetuating oversimplified, stereotyped views of the world.

  Academic text (1990)

• But if you do that, you perpetuate the end of this country itself.

• To blame is to perpetuate the past, to keep it going.

• Of course, keeping women from further exercise only served to perpetuate any state of physical weakness.

  Academic text (1999)

• Social workers' insights can be used to perpetuate better policies and programs in human services.

  Academic text (1991)

• There is no longer any excuse for religious leaders to perpetuate old attitudes toward religious diversity.

  Academic text (1999)

• If we don't, we risk perpetuating a class system based on race.

• Arranged marriages perpetuate religious and caste divisions.

• Arranged marriages perpetuate religious and caste divisions.

Synonyms

M

to maintain

vsto perpetuate

931 3.1

Keep an activity, quality, or schedule going over time

causes continuation often keeping unwanted situations in place

S

to sustain

vsto perpetuate

102 4.0

To keep something going for a long time

causes continuation often with negative or unwanted effects

Antonyms

C

to cease

324 3.6

To stop or come to an end

D

to discontinue

58 4.2

To stop something that is happening or being given

Phrasal Verbs

P

to perpetuate racism

• Offensive

1 7.4

To cause racist ideas or unfair treatment to continue

How Persistent

to entrench

45 6.7

to perpetuate

114 6.5

to preserve

496 3.4

to maintain

931 3.1

to let it ride

7.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology