Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - perpetrate
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Perpetrate
perpetrate
(perpetrates, perpetrating, perpetrated) If someone perpetrates a crime or any other immoral or harmful act, they do it. (FORMAL) A high proportion of crime in any country is perpetrated by young males in their teens and twenties... = commit VERB: V n • perpetration ...a very small minority who persist in the perpetration of these crimes. N-SING: usu N of n • perpetrator (perpetrators) The perpetrator of this crime must be traced. N-COUNT
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transitive verb (-trated; -trating) Etymology: Latin perpetratus, past participle of perpetrare, from per- through + patrare to accomplish, from pater father — more at father Date: 1537 1. to bring about or carry out (as a crime or deception) ; commit 2. to produce, perform, or execute (something likened to a crime) ~ a pun • perpetration noun • perpetrator noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. commit or perform (a crime, blunder, or anything outrageous). Derivatives perpetration n. perpetrator n. Etymology: L perpetrare perpetrat- (as PER-, patrare effect) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. совершать to perpetrate a crime —- совершить преступление to perpetrate a breach of good taste —- изменить хорошему вкусу 2. сотворить to perpetrate a pun —- состряпать каламбур ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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a pun сочинить каламбур PERPETRATE v. 1) совершать (преступление, ошибку и т.п.) 2) joc. сотворить; - perpetrate a pun Syn: see commit ...Англо-русский словарь
5.
~ v formal to do something that is morally wrong or criminal (crimes that have been perpetrated in the name of religion) - perpetrator n (We'll bring the perpetrators to justice.) - perpetration n (the perpetration of crime) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- late 15c., from L. perpetratus, pp. of perpetrare "perform," from per- "completely" + patrare "carry out," originally "bring into existence," from pater "father." Perpetrator is 1570, from L.L. perpetrator, from L. perpetrare. First used in Eng. in statutes, hence its sense of "criminal." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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