per·pe·trate
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
公司工作人员犯下的安全漏洞 - 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 punishmentc2- They believed that a crime had been perpetrated against them.
他们相信有人对他们犯下了罪行。 - They were victims of a fraud being perpetrated on companies in search of cash to help them ride the recession.
他们是针对公司寻求现金以帮助他们应对经济衰退的欺诈行为的受害者。 - We will not tolerate violence perpetrated against women and children.
我们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 to perpetrate a crime/fraud/massacre