Definitions for perpetrate

perpetrate per·pe·trate

Spelling: [pur-pi-treyt]
IPA: /ˈpɜr pɪˌtreɪt/

Perpetrate is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 186 anagrams from letters in perpetrate (aeeepprrtt).

Definitions for perpetrate

verb (used with object)

  1. to commit:
  2. to present, execute, or do in a poor or tasteless manner:

Origin of perpetrate

1540-50; Latin perpetrātus (past participle of perpetrāre to carry out, execute, perform), equivalent to per- per- + -petr- (combining form of patrāre to father, bring

Examples for perpetrate

Pollux, I repeat it, did not perpetrate the caricature, but a sculptor from Rome.

Let me perpetrate one more,—one which is perhaps the most glaring of all.

It was just possible that the ranchers might perpetrate some hostile act.

It is at this point that we perpetrate one of our commonest blunders.

He must be rid of the fellow in some way—no eye must see him perpetrate the deed he had in mind.

Secondly, that you undertake to perpetrate no act of piracy while I am on board.

But short of this, they can hardly be aware of the extent of the mischief they perpetrate.

Bid them do the deed that you are too cowardly to perpetrate yourself!

In a word, what vice and crime does he perpetrate—what low acts does he commit?

"What a lot of folly they have allowed me to perpetrate," he muttered as he ran along.

Word Value for perpetrate
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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