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Past tense of perpetrate

regular verb

The past tense of perpetrate is perpetrated. The past participle is also perpetrated.

Forms of perpetrate

Base form (V1)perpetrate /ˈpɜː(ɹ).pəˌtɹeɪt/
Past tense (V2)perpetrated
Past participle (V3)perpetrated
Present participleperpetrating
Third person singularperpetrates

Perpetrated in a sentence

  • When thinking about Zohnerism, the impeachment perpetrated on our president by the Democrat-led Congress comes to mind.2020 January 17, Ed Liberatore, “Letter to the editor: Impeachment & misinterpretation of facts”, in The Tribune-Review. From the entry Zohnerism
  • One commonplace theft was the snatch-and-run perpetrated around the central business area by boys or young men.1995, John C. Weaver, “The Enduring Circumstances of Violence and Theft”, in Crimes, Constables, and Courts: Order and Transgression in a…. From the entry snatch and run
  • Piquerism, then, is usually perpetrated on others within some close physical proximity.1983 October 1, Ronald M. Holmes, The Sex Offender and the Criminal Justice System, Springfield: C. C. Thomas, →ISBN, →OL, page 150. From the entry piquerism
  • A species of swindle that has been perpetrated times without number all over this country is the old gold-brick game.1906, Harry Houdini, The Right Way to Do Wrong, page 72. From the entry gold-brick
  • You had to wonder whether he was thinking about some mischief he had just perpetrated or thinking about some new mischief he could get into.2004, Jud McLester, Thru a Pilot's Eye: Cold War Through Vietnam Era, page 222. From the entry devil in one's eyes

Meaning of perpetrate

  1. verb To be guilty of, or responsible for a crime etc; to commit.

Full definition of perpetrate

Questions about the past tense of perpetrate

What is the past tense of perpetrate?
The past tense of perpetrate is perpetrated.
What is the past participle of perpetrate?
The past participle of perpetrate is perpetrated.
Is perpetrate a regular or irregular verb?
Perpetrate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: perpetrate (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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