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   per·pe·trate

   /ˈpərpəˌtrāt/

   verb

   • 1. carry out or commit (a harmful, illegal, or immoral action): "a crime has been perpetrated against a sovereign state"

   Word Origin mid 16th century: 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.

   Derivatives

   • 1. perpetration noun

   Scrabble Points: 14

   • P

     3

   • E

     1

   • R

     1

   • P

     3

   • E

     1

   • T

     1

   • R

     1

   • A

     1

   • T

     1

   • E

     1

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