Definition: perpetrate

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

perpetrate
     v : perform an act, usually with a negative connotation:
         "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery" [syn: commit,
          pull]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Perpetrate \Per"pe*trate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Perpetrated; p.
   pr. & vb. n. Perpetrating.] [L. perpetratus, p. p. of
   perpetrare to effect, perpetrare; per + patrare to perform.]
   To do or perform; to carry through; to execute, commonly in a
   bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be guilty
   of; as, to perpetrate a foul deed.

         What the worst perpetrate, or best endure. --Young.