Perpetrate
['pɜːpɪtreɪt] or ['pɝpətret]
Definition
(verb.) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation; 'perpetrate a crime'; 'pull a bank robbery'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To do or perform; to carry through; to execute, commonly in a bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be guilty of; as, to perpetrate a foul deed.
Editor: Vito
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Do (as something base), commit, perform, execute.
Editor: Nicolas
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Commit
ANT:Achieve, perfect
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Definition
v.t. to perform or commit (usually in a bad sense): to produce (as a poor pun).—adj. Per′petrable.—ns. Perpetrā′tion act of committing a crime: the thing perpetrated: an evil action; Per′petrātor.
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Examples
- I had been the author of unalterable evils; and I lived in daily fear, lest the monster whom I had created should perpetrate some new wickedness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Sir Philip induced two of his sisters to perpetrate a duet. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It accuses them of crimes intended as well as perpetrated, sir. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The outrage had been perpetrated throughout in dead silence. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He turned his arms against the caliphate and captured Bagdad, in which city he perpetrated a massacre of the entire population. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The irruption of the Ephthalites is memorable not so much because of its permanent effects as because of the atrocities perpetrated by the invaders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On the first of these occasions, she perpetrated the attempt to burn me in my bed; on the second, she paid that ghastly visit to you. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She supported them, and protected those who perpetrated outrages on the Europeans. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This fellow is a great scoundrel, and ought to be incapacitated from perpetrating further mischief. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Editor: Natasha