Perpetuate

Definition: Perpetuate

Perpetuate

Verb

1. Cause to continue or prevail; "perpetuate a myth".

Date "perpetuate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Continuance in action	Sustain, uphold, hold up, keep on foot; follow up, perpetuate; maintain; preserve; a; harp upon; (repeat).
Perpetuity	Eternize, perpetuate.
Stability	Settle, establish, stablish, ascertain, fix, set, stabilitate; retain, keep hold; make good, make sure; fasten; (join); set on its legs, float; perpetuate.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Perpetuate

English words defined with "perpetuate": Perpetuated, Perpetuating. (references)

Specialty definitions using "perpetuate": monument. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	And you're the last person I would want to perpetuate it. (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ram�n De Espa�a)
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Domain	Title
Books	An essay on British cottage architecture: being an attempt to perpetuate on principle, that peculiar mode of building, which was originally the effect of chance (reference) What Cultural Influence Should the U.S. Perpetuate (Opposing Viewpoints Pamphlets Series) (reference) (more book examples)
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	America. To perpetuate to posterity the memory of those patriotic heroes, who fought, bled & died in establishing peace, liberty & tranquility to their country.Credit: Library of Congress.		The heroes' memorial. A memorial to perpetuate the remembrance of the heroes of the Empire State, who fell fighting for the Union, or died in rebel prisons, in military hospitals or at their homes in the years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65 / Clay, Cosack & Co.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Emerson	The artist ought never to perpetuate a temporary expression.
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Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Burma	Moreover, defense attorneys appear to serve no purpose other than to perpetuate the pretense of a fair trial, since reliable reports indicate that senior military authorities dictate verdicts, regardless of the evidence or the law. (references)
Women	Jamaica	Social and cultural traditions perpetuate violence against women, including spousal abuse. (references)
Worker Rights	India	NGO's allege that corruption at the enforcement level helps to perpetuate the problem. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated. The bones of Agammemnon are a show, And ruined is his royal monument, but Agammemnon's fame suffers no diminution in consequence. The monument custom has its reductiones ad absurdum in monuments "to the unknown dead" -- that is to say, monuments to perpetuate the memory of those who have left no memory.
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Gennifer Flowers	I may have started it, but I didn't perpetuate the problem. If there is a strategy as we sit here and talk it would be Bill Clinton's fault, and I think that he certainly should take responsibility for his actions, which at times he finds hard to do.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Madison	1809-1817	A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	There the benevolent may endeavor to teach them the arts of civilization, and, by promoting union and harmony among them, to raise up an interesting commonwealth, destined to perpetuate the race and to attest the humanity and justice of this Government.
James K. Polk	1845-1849	To perpetuate them it is our sacred duty to preserve it.
Zachary Taylor	1849-1850	I shall look with confidence to the enlightened patriotism of that body to adopt such measures of conciliation as may harmonize conflicting interests and tend to perpetuate that Union which should be the paramount object of our hopes and affections.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	If we value strong families, we cannot perpetuate a system that penalizes those who stay together.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Perpetuate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 73.41% of the time. "Perpetuate" is used about 173 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	73.41%	127	28,395
Lexical Verb (base form)	19.65%	34	59,261
Adjective (general or positive)	6.36%	11	106,044
Noun (singular)	0.58%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	173	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "perpetuate": self-perpetuate.
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Language		Translations for "perpetuate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		përjetësoj (eternalize, eternize, immortalize). (various references)

Arabic		‏تأبد, ‏سرمد, ‏خلد (eternize, immortalize, live), ‏أبد, ‏دام (bleeding, bloody, continue, eddy, gyrate, last, swirl, wash). (various references)

Bulgarian		увековечавам (eternalize, eternize, immortalize, monumentalize), обезсмъртявам (eternalize, eternize, immortalize), запазвам навеки, прославям (canonize, glorify, make, resound, signalize, sound), продължавам рода си. (various references)

Chinese		永久存在 (Perpetuated, Perpetuating). (various references)

Czech		zvìènit (eternalize, eternize, immortalize). (various references)

Farsi		همیشگی کردن , جاودانی ساختن , داءمی کردن . (various references)

Finnish		ikuistaa (immortalize). (various references)

French		perpétuer, se perpétuer. (various references)

German		verewigen (eternalize, immortalize, to eternalize). (various references)

Greek		διαιωνίζω. (various references)

Hebrew		להנציח (eternize, immortalize, preserve). (various references)

Hungarian		megörökít (Chronicle, eternalize, eternize, immortalize, to immortalize, to perpetuate, to record), fenntart (keep, keep up, maintain, nourish, reserve, to buoy, to buoy up, to carry on, to hold up, to keep up, to nourish, to reserve, to support, to vindicate, uphold), állandóvá tesz (to perpetuate). (various references)

Indonesian		memperabadikan (immortalize, record for posterity), melestarikan (conserve, continue, preserve), melanggengkan (preserve). (various references)

Italian		perpetuare (last). (various references)

Korean		영속시키십시요. (various references)

Manx		sheeraghey (perpetuation). (various references)

Pig Latin		erpetuatepay

Portuguese		perpetuar (immortalize), vitalício (lifelong position), imortalizar (etesian, immortalize), eternizar (eternity, eternize, preserve). (various references)

Romanian		perpetua (endure, immortalize), transmite (assign, bestow, carry, circulate, communicate, confer, consign to, convey, deliver, deliver over, demise, devolve, give, hand, pass, record, refer, remit, render, send, transfer, transfuse, transmit). (various references)

Russian		увековечивать (eternalize, eternize, immortalize, immortalizing, memorialize, monumentalize). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ovekovečiti. (various references)

Spanish		perpetuar (eternalize). (various references)

Swedish		vidmakthålla (conserve, uphold), föreviga (eternalize, eternize, immortalize), bevara (conserve, embalm, keep, maintain, maintaining, preserve, protect, retain, save). (various references)

Turkish		sürdürmek (carry on, continue, elongate, follow, go ahead with smth., keep, keep going, keep on, keep the ball rolling, keep up, lead, maintain, persist, prolong, prosecute, pursue, remain, support, sustain, uphold, wage), ebedileştirmek (eternalize, eternize), aralıksız yapmak. (various references)

Ukranian		увічнювати (eternize, immortalize, monumentalize), зберігати назавжди. (various references)

Welsh		bytholi. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "perpetuate": perpetuated, perpetuates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Perpetuate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perpetu, perpetua, Perpetue, perpetuo, perpretate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "perpetuate" (pronounced perpe"khuwā't)
5	-kh u w ā' t	actuate, fluctuate.
3	-w ā' t	antiquate, counterweight, deadweight, featherweight, heavyweight, hundredweight, middleweight, paperweight, underweight, welterweight.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-p-p-r-t-t-u"
	-3 letters: pretape.
	-4 letters: pattee, patter, pauper, peeper, petter, pupate, puttee, putter, rappee, repeat, repute, retape, tapper, tappet, tauter, teeter, terete, uprate, uptear.
	-5 letters: apter, arete, eater, erupt, etape, paper, pareu, pater, peart, perea, peter, prate, pruta, pupae, puree, rupee, taper, tater, taupe, tepee, tetra, trapt, treat, tutee, upper, urate, utter.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-p-p-r-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: perpetuated, perpetuates.
	+5 letters: interperceptual.
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