Definition of "perpetrate" [per•pe•trate]

• To be responsible for; commit: perpetrate a crime; perpetrate a practical joke. (verb-transitive)

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• "What a comment on our culture when people "perpetrate" themselves in order to claim victimhod."
• "I speak not merely of obscurities, to perpetrate which is in every sense to stand in one's own light, but of sheer fatuities, tweakings-of-the-nose to our reverend mother-tongue, as either might have expressed it."
• "Do you actually suggest that one is obliged to imagine all the specific violations that all organizations might perpetrate against them, and then go searching the internet to see if that particular violation has already be found out?"