Usually means: Continue or maintain something indefinitely.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word perpetuate:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. perpetuate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. perpetuate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. perpetuate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. perpetuate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. perpetuate: Vocabulary.com
  6. perpetuate: Wordnik
  7. perpetuate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. perpetuate: Wiktionary
  9. perpetuate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. perpetuate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. perpetuate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. perpetuate: Dictionary.com
  13. Perpetuate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. perpetuate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. perpetuate: Rhymezone
  16. perpetuate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. perpetuate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. perpetuate: Free Dictionary
  19. perpetuate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. perpetuate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  21. perpetuate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. Perpetuate: Wordnik
  23. perpetuate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. perpetuate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. perpetuate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

(Note: See perpetuated as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (archaic except poetic) Perpetual, or made perpetual; continued for an indefinite time.
verb:  (transitive) To make (something) perpetual; to make (something) continue for an indefinite time; also, to preserve (something) from extinction or oblivion.
verb:  (law) To record (the testimony of a witness) which may be lost before a matter comes to trial.
verb:  (transitive) To prolong the existence of (something) by repetition; to reinforce.

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