A person who carries out a harmful, illegal, or immoral act.
the perpetrators of this horrific crime must be brought to justice
Example sentencesExamples
Individuals with serious mental illness are, in fact, more likely to be victims, rather than perpetrators of violence.
Few of the perpetrators have been brought to justice.
Those perpetrators are hereby sentenced to remain a thousand yards away from any computer equipment, lest they be apprehended on sight.
It's more of a drug movie than a sex movie, culminating in an horrific murder, of which the perpetrators remember nothing.
They would close ranks around individual perpetrators to protect them from any threat of prosecution by state or federal authorities.
Even now, the offspring of the perpetrators deny it ever happened.
We see the victim gradually change through the force of his anguish into a senseless perpetrator.
She plays a super-cop whose main submission tactic is revealing her breasts, so perpetrators are lulled into boredom.
He's really a cop going undercover to find the perpetrators of a series of daring hijackings.
A number of memoirs published over the last 20 years have shifted their focus from the victim/perpetrator relationship to the survivor/rescuer relationship.
Definition of perpetrator in US English:
perpetrator
nounˈpərpəˌtrādərˈpərpəˌtreɪdər
A person who carries out a harmful, illegal, or immoral act.
the perpetrators of this horrific crime must be brought to justice
Example sentencesExamples
Individuals with serious mental illness are, in fact, more likely to be victims, rather than perpetrators of violence.
Those perpetrators are hereby sentenced to remain a thousand yards away from any computer equipment, lest they be apprehended on sight.
Few of the perpetrators have been brought to justice.
Even now, the offspring of the perpetrators deny it ever happened.
He's really a cop going undercover to find the perpetrators of a series of daring hijackings.
It's more of a drug movie than a sex movie, culminating in an horrific murder, of which the perpetrators remember nothing.
They would close ranks around individual perpetrators to protect them from any threat of prosecution by state or federal authorities.
She plays a super-cop whose main submission tactic is revealing her breasts, so perpetrators are lulled into boredom.
A number of memoirs published over the last 20 years have shifted their focus from the victim/perpetrator relationship to the survivor/rescuer relationship.
We see the victim gradually change through the force of his anguish into a senseless perpetrator.