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発音

• IPA: /ˈpɜː(ɹ).pəˌtɹeɪt/

動詞

perpetrate (third-person singular simple present perpetrates, present participle perpetrating, simple past and past participle perpetrated)

1. (transitive) To be guilty of, or responsible for a crime etc; to commit.

   perpetrate a murder

   • 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter VIII, in The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth‎:

     What Polina is good for is to fall head over ears in love. That is MY opinion. Look at her—especially when she is sitting alone, and plunged in thought. All this was pre-ordained and foretold, and is accursed. Polina could perpetrate any mad act. She—she—But who called me by name?" I broke off.

派生語

関連する語

• perpetration
• perpetrator

Further reading

• “perpetrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “perpetrate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.