English-Thai Dictionary

perpetrate

VT ทำผิด  ทำ สิ่ง ที่ ไม่ดี  ทำบาป  commit pull tam-pid

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PERPETRATE

v.t.[L. perpetro; per and patro, to go through, to finish. ] To do; to commit; to perform; in an ill sense, that is, always used to express an evil act; as, to perpetrate a crime or an evil design.

 

PERPETRATED

pp. Done; committed; as an evil act.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PERPETRATE

Per "pe *trate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Perpetrated; p. pr. & vb. n.Perpetrating. ] Etym: [L. perpetratus, p.p. of perpetrare to effect, perpetrare; per + patrare to perform. ]

 

Defn: To do or perform; to carry through; to execute, commonly in a bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense ); to be guilty of; as, to perpetrate a foul deed. What the worst perpetrate, or best endure. Young.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

perpetrate

per pe trate |ˈpərpəˌtrāt ˈpərpəˌtreɪt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] carry out or commit (a harmful, illegal, or immoral action ): a crime has been perpetrated against a sovereign state. DERIVATIVES per pe tra tion |ˌpərpəˈtrāSHən |noun, per pe tra tor |-ˌtrātər |noun ORIGIN mid 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, hence the negative association. usage: To perpetrate something is to commit it: the gang perpetrated outrages against several citizens. To perpetuate something is to cause it to continue or to keep happening: the stories only serve to perpetuate the legend that the house is haunted.

 

Oxford Dictionary

perpetrate

perpetrate |ˈpəːpɪtreɪt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] carry out or commit (a harmful, illegal, or immoral action ): a crime has been perpetrated against a sovereign state. DERIVATIVES perpetration |-ˈtreɪʃ (ə )n |noun, perpetrator noun ORIGIN mid 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, hence the negative association. usage: The words perpetrate and perpetuate are sometimes confused. Perpetrate means ‘commit a harmful, illegal, or immoral action ’, as in a crime has been perpetrated against a sovereign state, whereas perpetuate means ‘make something continue indefinitely ’, as in a monument to perpetuate the memory of those killed in the war.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

perpetrate

perpetrate verb they perpetrated a series of armed robberies: commit, carry out, perform, execute, do, effect, bring about, accomplish; be guilty of, be to blame for, be responsible for, inflict, wreak; informal pull off; formal effectuate.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

perpetrate

perpetrate verb right-wing elements perpetrated a series of attacks and assaults: commit, carry out, perform, execute, do, effect, bring about, be guilty of, be to blame for, be responsible for, accomplish, inflict, wreak; informal pull off, pull; rare effectuate.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

perpetrate

per pe trate /pə́ː r pətrèɪt / (! 強勢は第1音節 ) 動詞 他動詞 ｟かたく ｠ «…に対して » 〈過失 罪など 〉を行う, 犯す (commit ) «on , against » .