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perpetuate
[ per-pech-oo-eyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to enable or allow the continuation of into the future; keep alive (used most often in reference to something considered harmful or false): Vines obscured a plaque intended to perpetuate her memory.
Social media played a significant role in perpetuating political divisions.
Vines obscured a plaque intended to perpetuate her memory.
- to preserve from extinction or oblivion: perpetuate the species.
to perpetuate one's name;
perpetuate the species.
Synonyms: , , ,
perpetuate
/ əˈɛʊˌɪ /
verb
- tr to cause to continue or prevail
to perpetuate misconceptions
Usage
Derived Forms
- ˌٳˈپDz, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- ···· adjective
- ····پDz [per-pech-oo-, ey, -sh, uh, n], ···Գ [per-, pech, -oo-, uh, ns], noun
- ····ٴǰ noun
- un····· adjective
- ܲ·····Բ adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of perpetuate1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of perpetuate1
Example Sentences
Having a bad night's sleep and then taking a nap may "perpetuate the problem", Dr Lazar says.
It is true that Black and brown people get swept up in the imperial core and become the enforcers of the regime that perpetuates their exclusion and inequality.
All of this together creates a system in which trauma related to substance use and incarceration perpetuates in future generations, said Dr. Mishka Terplan, an OB-GYN and addiction medicine doctor at the Friends Research Institute.
Efforts to understand how social media perpetuates unrealistic body standards that affect mental health have also largely been focused largely on girls.
Some are much bigger, and are perpetuated by our president and his cronies.
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