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{"id": "perpetrate", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "perpetrate", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"derivatives": [{"id": "perpetration", "text": "perpetration"}], "entries": [{"etymologies": ["mid 16th century: from Latin perpetrat- \u2018performed\u2019, from the verb perpetrare, from per- \u2018to completion\u2019 + patrare \u2018bring about\u2019. In Latin the act perpetrated might be good or bad; in English the verb was first used in the statutes referring to crime, hence the negative association"], "grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "transitive", "text": "Transitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "notes": [{"text": "The words perpetrate and perpetuate are sometimes confused. Perpetrate means \u2018commit a harmful, illegal, or immoral action\u2019, as in a crime has been perpetrated against a sovereign state, whereas perpetuate means \u2018make something continue indefinitely\u2019, as in a monument to perpetuate the memory of those killed in the war", "type": "editorialNote"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/perpetrate_gb_1_8.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u02c8p\u0259\u02d0p\u026atre\u026at"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["carry out or commit (a harmful, illegal, or immoral action)"], "domainClasses": [{"id": "crime", "text": "Crime"}], "examples": [{"text": "a crime has been perpetrated against a sovereign state"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0768030.005", "shortDefinitions": ["carry out or commit"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "commit"}, {"language": "en", "text": "carry out"}, {"language": "en", "text": "perform"}, {"language": "en", "text": "execute"}, {"language": "en", "text": "do"}, {"language": "en", "text": "effect"}, {"language": "en", "text": "bring about"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be guilty of"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be to blame for"}, {"language": "en", "text": "be responsible for"}, {"language": "en", "text": "accomplish"}, {"language": "en", "text": "inflict"}, {"language": "en", "text": "wreak"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "perpetrate", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0010940.001"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "verb", "text": "Verb"}, "text": "perpetrate"}], "type": "headword", "word": "perpetrate"}], "word": "perpetrate"}
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