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（錯事）；幹（壞事） - perpetrate something
to perpetrate a crime/fraud/massacre 犯罪；行騙；進行屠殺 security breaches perpetrated by people working for the company 爲公司工作的人犯下的安全違規行爲 - perpetrate something against/upon/on somebody
violence perpetrated against women and children 針對婦女和兒童的暴力行爲
Extra ExamplesTopics Crime and punishmentc2They believed that a crime had been perpetrated against them. 他們認爲有人對他們犯了罪。 They were victims of a fraud being perpetrated on companies in search of cash to help them ride the recession. 他們是欺詐行爲的受害者，這些欺詐行爲是針對那些尋求現金幫助他們渡過經濟衰退的公司的。 We will not tolerate violence perpetrated against women and children. 我們不會容忍針對婦女和兒童的暴力行爲。
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