perpetrate

From Middle English perpetrat (“committed, perteptrated”), from Latin perpetrātus, past participle of perpetrare (“to carry through”), from per (“through”) + patrare (“to perform”), akin to potis (“able”), potens (“powerful”); see potent.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɜː(ɹ).pəˌtɹeɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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

• perpetration
• perpetrator

• “perpetrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “perpetrate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

perpetrate

1. inflection of perpetrare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

perpetrate f pl

1. feminine plural of perpetrato

perpetrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of perpetrō

perpetrate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of perpetrar combined with te