perpetrate
verb (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they perpetrate | |
| he / she / it perpetrates | |
| past simple perpetrated | |
| past participle perpetrated | |
| -ing form perpetrating |
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 为公司工作的人犯下的安全违规行为 - 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 punishmentc2They believed that a crime had been perpetrated against them. 他们认为有人对他们犯了罪。 They were victims of a fraud being perpetrated on companies in search of cash to help them ride the recession. 他们是欺诈行为的受害者，这些欺诈行为是针对那些寻求现金帮助他们渡过经济衰退的公司的。 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