Meaning & use
Perpetrated
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Carried out or committed an act, typically one that is illegal, immoral, or harmful.
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Investigators are still trying to identify who perpetrated the cyberattack.
The atrocities perpetrated during the war were later documented in great detail.
A note on using this word
"Perpetrated" comes from the Latin perpetrare, "to accomplish" or "to bring about," and in modern English is almost always used for wrongdoing.
Words with a similar meaning
committedcarried out
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Words with an opposite meaning
prevented
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