perpetrate
verb (used with object)
to commit.
perpetrates
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present tense formof perpetrate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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In a letter to lawmakers, the group said violence is “outside the bounds of legitimate political discourse regardless of who perpetrates it.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2021
“When someone perpetrates wrongdoing, it is the fault of that person or those persons who did that,” she said.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 25, 2020
Indeed, it is a modern trope: the loving family man who perpetrates acts of cruelty because he is just following orders.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2017
But it perpetrates a gross falsification of history.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2011
The most exasperating thing about Waddles is the bland, unconscious manner in which he perpetrates these outrages upon his opponents.
From Fore! by Charles Emmett Van Loan
