perpetuate
verb /pəˈpetʃueɪt/
/pərˈpetʃueɪt/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they perpetuate | /pəˈpetʃueɪt/ /pərˈpetʃueɪt/ |
| he / she / it perpetuates | /pəˈpetʃueɪts/ /pərˈpetʃueɪts/ |
| past simple perpetuated | /pəˈpetʃueɪtɪd/ /pərˈpetʃueɪtɪd/ |
| past participle perpetuated | /pəˈpetʃueɪtɪd/ /pərˈpetʃueɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form perpetuating | /pəˈpetʃueɪtɪŋ/ /pərˈpetʃueɪtɪŋ/ |
- to make something such as a bad situation, a belief, etc. continue for a long time
- perpetuate something to perpetuate injustice
- Comics tend to perpetuate the myth that ‘boys don't cry’.
- perpetuate itself This system perpetuated itself for several centuries.
Extra Examples- Schools tend to perpetuate the myth that boys are better at science than girls.
- This new law just serves to perpetuate inequality.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- just
- merely
- only
- …
- help (to)
- serve to
- tend to
- …
Word Originearly 16th cent.: from Latin perpetuat- ‘made permanent’, from the verb perpetuare, from perpetuus ‘continuing throughout’, from perpes, perpet- ‘continuous’.