verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
perpetrate excesses formal (= commit them )
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Government forces used the situation as an excuse to perpetrate excesses against suspected rebels.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
crime
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Somehow she seemed too gentle, too vague to perpetrate such a brutal crime .
fraud
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The commonwealth, Dalzell believed, had perpetrated a fraud on the federal court; the commonwealth had swapped evidence.
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Wilson said the Justice Department believes it has now caught everyone involved in perpetrating the fraud .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an extremist group that had perpetrated bombings and other acts of terror
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A bluff she had perpetrated mainly on herself to give herself the strength to go on living.
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Another element is the continuing presence of organized white supremacists in our society and the violence they perpetrate .
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He was merely perpetrating that deprivation.
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Most such attempts, it concluded, are actually perpetrated by authorised users, and can usually be covered by existing law.
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That was what made Feeley innocent, no matter what outrages he perpetrated.
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The kinds of attack perpetrated by women seldom use deadly force.
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The rumor was that I had invented him to perpetrate a hoax and had actually written the books myself.