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perpetrate

/ˈpɜː(ɹ).pəˌtɹeɪt/

perpetrate verb: to be guilty of, or responsible for a crime etc; to commit.

Verb

perpetrate (third-person singular simple present perpetrates, present participle perpetrating, simple past and past participle perpetrated)

  1. (transitive) To be guilty of, or responsible for a crime etc; to commit.
    • perpetrate a murder
    • What Polina is good for is to fall head over ears in love. That is MY opinion. Look at her—especially when she is sitting alone, and plunged in thought. All this was pre-ordained and foretold, and is accursed. Polina could perpetrate any mad act. She—she—But who called me by name?" I broke off.1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter VIII, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(1867)/VIII)

perpetrate meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

perpetrate in Urdu

عمل درآمد کرنا

perpetrate in Bengali

অপরাধ, ভুল কাজ করা

perpetrate in Malayalam

പാതകം ചെയ്യുക, കുറ്റം ചെയ്യുക, അതിക്രമിക്കുക

perpetrate in Kannada

ತಪ್ಪು ಮಾಡು, ಕೇಡು ನಡೆಸು, ಅಪರಾಧ ಮಾಡು, ಪ್ರಮಾದವೆಸಗು

Examples of perpetrate in a sentence

  • When thinking about Zohnerism, the impeachment perpetrated on our president by the Democrat-led Congress comes to mind.
  • As elsewhere in the world, individuals need judging by actions they perpetrate.
  • This led to the charge that Kinsey was perpetrating what we might call the statisticization of morality.

All 16 example sentences with perpetrate

Forms of perpetrate

third-person singular presentperpetrates
present participleperpetrating
past participleperpetrated
pastperpetrated

Past tense of perpetrate: perpetrated

Origin of perpetrate

From Middle English perpetrat (“committed, perpetrated”), from Latin perpetrātus, past participle of perpetrāre (“to carry through”).

Words formed from perpetrate

Questions about perpetrate

What does perpetrate mean?
Perpetrate means to be guilty of, or responsible for a crime etc; to commit.
What is perpetrate in Urdu?
Perpetrate in Urdu is عمل درآمد کرنا. See Perpetrate meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is perpetrate?
Perpetrate is a verb.
How do you pronounce perpetrate?
Perpetrate is pronounced /ˈpɜː(ɹ).pəˌtɹeɪt/.
What is the past tense of perpetrate?
The past tense of perpetrate is perpetrated.

Words near perpetrate in the dictionary

  1. perpession
  2. perpessions
  3. perpet
  4. perpetia
  5. perpetrable
  6. perpetrate
  7. perpetrated
  8. perpetrates
  9. perpetrating
  10. perpetration
  11. perpetrations

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: perpetrate (page history and authors); perpetrate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); perpetrate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); perpetrate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); perpetrate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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