perpetrate
verb (used with object)
to commit.
had been perpetrating
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past perfect progressiveof perpetrate.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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At the fearful outcome of the joke Tom had been perpetrating the boys concealed in the bushes were almost struck dumb, and for several seconds nobody could speak or move.
From The Rover Boys in the Jungle Or, Stirring Adventures in Africa by Edward Stratemeyer
The recollection of the thousand deeds of selfish ambition and cruelty which he had been perpetrating, he said, all his days, filled him with remorse.
From William the Conqueror Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
