per´pe|tra´tion

per´pe|tra´tion
per|pe|trate «PUR puh trayt», verb, -trat|ed, -trat|ing, adjective.
–v.t.
1. to do or commit (a crime, fraud, trick, or anything bad or foolish): »

The two thieves perpetrated the robbery of the jewelry store.

2. Informal. to do or make (something implied to be bad or atrocious): »

to perpetrate a pun. Sir Philip induced two of his sisters to perpetrate a duet (Charlotte Brontë).

–adj.
Obsolete. perpetrated.
[< Latin perpetrāre (with English -ate1) < per- (intensive) + patrāre perform, accomplish]
per´pe|tra´tion, noun.
per´pe|tra´tor, noun.

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