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perpetrate


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Perpetrate  \Per"pe*trate\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Perpetrated};  p. 
  pr  &  vb  n.  {Perpetrating}.]  [L.  perpetratus  p.  p.  of 
  perpetrare  to  effect,  perpetrare;  per  +  patrare  to  perform.] 
  To  do  or  perform;  to  carry  through  to  execute,  commonly  in  a 
  bad  sense  to  commit  (as  a  crime,  an  offense);  to  be  guilty 
  of  as  to  perpetrate  a  foul  deed. 
 
  What  the  worst  perpetrate,  or  best  endure.  --Young. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  perpetrate 
  v  :  perform  an  act  usually  with  a  negative  connotation: 
  "perpetrate  a  crime";  "pull  a  bank  robbery"  [syn:  {commit}, 
  {pull}] 




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