Perpetrate Synonyms and Antonyms

pûrpĭ-trāt
To be responsible for or guilty of (an error or crime)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. commit
  2. pull off
Be responsible for
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. commit
  2. perform
  3. execute
  4. pull
  5. enact
  6. pull off
  7. wreak
Antonyms:
  1. abstain

Words Related to Perpetrate

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Perpetrate Sentence Examples

  • There have always been con artists who take advantage of legitimate services in order to perpetrate criminal acts.

  • He now signalized himself by his dissolute life and the ingenuity with which he contrived to perpetrate forgeries and other crimes without exposing himself to the risk of detection.

  • He preferred to be a man of pleasure and leisure, only awaking now and then to perpetrate some act of arbitrary cruelty.

  • Try as I might, I could fathom no reason why he'd perpetrate such a complex fraud.

  • In the present narratives, however, the stories in which he possesses influence with king and court are placed before the rise of Jehu, and some of them point to a state of hostility with Damascus before he foresees the atrocities which Hazael will perpetrate.

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