perpetuate

Speech parts

1. perpetuate - Adjective

2. perpetuate - Verb

Meaning

To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize.

Made perpetual; perpetuated.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

support last keep continue hold maintain protect store save secure extend retain delay preserve sustain
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Antonyms

bobtail end prevent reduce decrease crop
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Hypernyms

continue preserve uphold carry on bear on

Hyponyms

eternize

Derivatives

perpetuated perpetuating

Examples

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing. Joseph de Maistre

Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive. Richard Eberhart

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. James Thurber

Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it. William Godwin

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Evita Peron

Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly foresee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle. George Washington

Close letter words and terms

perpetuana perpetuance perpetuano perpetuation perpetuator perpetuity