🕵️perpetrate

verb
/ˈpɜːrpətreɪt/

Meaning

To commit or carry out, typically a harmful, illegal, or immoral act.

Example Sentences

The hackers perpetrated a massive cyber attack on the company.

Example Expressions

perpetrate a crime

Synonyms

commit, execute, inflict, perform, enact

Antonyms

prevent, halt, stop

Collocations

perpetrate a fraud, perpetrate a crime, perpetrate violence, perpetrate injustice

Related Vocabularies

To make something different or to become different.
To make an action or process happen sooner or be accomplished more quickly.
to treat or worship someone or something as a god
to pull apart or damage by force; to rip
to waste something, especially money or time, in a reckless or foolish manner
to bring under control or domination, often by conquest

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