perpetrate
verb
[ ˈpəːpɪtreɪt ]
• carry out or commit (a harmful, illegal, or immoral action).
• "a crime has been perpetrated against a sovereign state"
Similar:
commit,
carry out,
perform,
execute,
do,
effect,
bring about,
be guilty of,
be to blame for,
be responsible for,
accomplish,
inflict,
wreak,
pull off,
pull,
effectuate,
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.
