perpetuateper‧pet‧u‧ate /pəˈpetʃueɪt $ pər-/ ●○○ verb [transitive] 
Verb Table Examples
an education system that perpetuates the divisions in our society—perpetuation /pəˌpetʃuˈeɪʃən $ pər-/ noun [uncountable]
Verb TableVERB TABLE
perpetuate
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | perpetuate |
| he, she, it | perpetuates | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | perpetuated |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have perpetuated |
| he, she, it | has perpetuated | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had perpetuated |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will perpetuate |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have perpetuated |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am perpetuating |
| he, she, it | is perpetuating | |
| you, we, they | are perpetuating | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was perpetuating |
| you, we, they | were perpetuating | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been perpetuating |
| he, she, it | has been perpetuating | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been perpetuating |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be perpetuating |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been perpetuating |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- His view is that the welfare system helps to perpetuate failure and poverty.
- The proposed law will perpetuate existing economic and class inequalities.
- This new book perpetuates all the old myths about the Kennedy assassination.
- But despite the well-meaning ring of colorblind ideals, you can not demand sameness of language while perpetuating segregated education.
- Public aid to the needy and even public sanitation tended to perpetuate the more vulnerable members of the race.
- She carried with her the values of the eastern seaboard, sought to perpetuate them, and succeeded.
- She was launched in 1965 to replace the Vincent and named Vigilant to perpetuate the traditional name.
- The myth of a woman taking the blame to protect the male foible should not be perpetuated.
- They gave such lyrical names to almost every place they seized, thus perpetuating their memory for ever.
- This is perpetuated in modern weaning during the oral stage and finds an equivalent in manic-depressive and paranoid-schizophrenic disorders.
- We in the news media help to perpetuate the erroneous cliche.
Longman Language Activatorto make something continue► continue/carry on
Collocations to continue something, often something that has been started by someone else: · Who's going to carry on the project when she leaves?· Immigrant families often try to continue cultural traditions.· In the eighteenth century, his research was carried on by Dubois.
► maintain to make something continue in the same way or at the same high standard as before: · Air France has maintained a high level of service for many years.· It is best if divorced parents can maintain friendly relations for the sake of the children.
► perpetuate to make something bad continue to exist, especially a situation that is not fair or involves false ideas: · This new book perpetuates all the old myths about the Kennedy assassination.· The proposed law will perpetuate existing economic and class inequalities.
► keep up to make something continue, especially when it is difficult and a lot of effort is needed: · She and Laura keep up their friendship through frequent telephone calls and lunch dates.· Environmental groups intend to keep up the pressure until the government changes the law.
► preserve to make something good continue because you think it should not be allowed to disappear: · As a family, we want to preserve the traditions of Jewish culture and religion.· All the names in the book have been changed to preserve the victims' anonymity.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► perpetuate a myth
to make a situation, attitude etc, especially a bad one, continue to exist for a long time: (=make it continue)· Let’s stop perpetuating this myth.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► myth· Let's set the record straight and stop perpetuating this myth.· To say that wine-speak is an obfuscation is at best perpetuating one of many myths about wine.· Without statistics to prove the theories daft, the opportunity remains to rely on the powers of suggestion to perpetuate the myth.· If he includes other people's slivers, he may well perpetuate damaging myths about that person.
► system· The biggest danger of Mr MacGregor's decision is that he perpetuates a system that fails to reward good classroom teaching.· All of our other efforts may come to little if we perpetuate a social system that undercuts those efforts.
VERB► help· We in the news media help to perpetuate the erroneous cliche.· He helped perpetuate it when he and his brothers led a gang in Golden Hill in the 1970s and 1980s.
an education system that perpetuates the divisions in our society—perpetuation /pəˌpetʃuˈeɪʃən $ pər-/ noun [uncountable]