perpetrate
verb🔊/ˈpɜːpətreɪt/
🔊/ˈpɜːrpətreɪt/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they perpetrate | 🔊/ˈpɜːpətreɪt/ 🔊/ˈpɜːrpətreɪt/ |
| he / she / it perpetrates | 🔊/ˈpɜːpətreɪts/ 🔊/ˈpɜːrpətreɪts/ |
| past simple perpetrated | 🔊/ˈpɜːpətreɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈpɜːrpətreɪtɪd/ |
| past participle perpetrated | 🔊/ˈpɜːpətreɪtɪd/ 🔊/ˈpɜːrpətreɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form perpetrating | 🔊/ˈpɜːpətreɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈpɜːrpətreɪtɪŋ/ |
to commit a crime or do something wrong or evil 犯（罪）；做（错事）；干（坏事） - perpetrate something
to perpetrate a crime/fraud/massacre 犯罪；行骗；进行屠杀 security breaches perpetrated by people working for the company 为公司工作的人所犯的安全漏洞 - perpetrate something against/upon/on somebody
violence perpetrated against women and children 针对妇女和儿童的暴力行为
Extra ExamplesTopics Crime and punishmentc2They believed that a crime had been perpetrated against them. 他们认为对他们犯了罪。 They were victims of a fraud being perpetrated on companies in search of cash to help them ride the recession. 他们是欺诈行为的受害者，这些欺诈行为是为了获取现金以帮助他们度过衰退而对公司实施的。 We will not tolerate violence perpetrated against women and children. 我们将不会容忍针对妇女和儿童的暴力行为。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPerpetrate is used with these nouns as the object:- act
- atrocity
- crime
- …
Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin perpetrat- ‘performed’, from the verb perpetrare, from per- ‘to completion’ + patrare ‘bring about’. In Latin the act perpetrated might be good or bad; in English the verb was first used in the statutes referring to crime, which led to the negative association.- perpetrate something