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- Dictionaryper·pet·u·ate/pərˈpeCHəˌwāt/
verb
- 1. make (something, typically an undesirable situation or an unfounded belief) continue indefinitely: "the law perpetuated the interests of the ruling class"
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Increasing the supply of weapons will only perpetuate the violence and anarchy. The aim of the association is to perpetuate the skills of traditional furniture design. The movie perpetuates stereotypes of small-town life. Why it should be so and why it perpetuates an injustice are the twin themes of the author.
Perpetuate means to enable or allow the continuation of something into the future, often something harmful or false. Learn more about its origin, usage, and related words from Dictionary.com.
Perpetuate means to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related articles for perpetuate and its noun form perpetuation.
If you perpetuate something, you help it last. Perpetrate , on the other hand, means to commit a criminal act. Needless to say, you wouldn't want to perpetuate the acts of perpetrators!
Increasing the supply of weapons will only perpetuate the violence and anarchy. The aim of the association is to perpetuate the skills of traditional furniture design. The movie perpetuates stereotypes of small-town life.
Perpetuate means to make something continue for a long time. Learn how to use this formal verb with pictures, pronunciation, synonyms and example sentences.
Perpetuate means to cause something to continue or prevail, especially a bad situation, system, or belief. Learn how to use this verb in different contexts, with synonyms and related words, and see examples from Collins Dictionary.
