0 past simple and past participle of perpetuate
1 to cause something to continue:
Increasing the supply of weapons will only perpetuate the violence and anarchy.
The aim of the association is to perpetuate the skills of traditional furniture design.
Cultural norms that discourage public discussion are likely to be more difficult to change because they are perpetuated by a variety of institutions.
Australian rock was founded, and perpetuated upon, a specific set of performers as the repositories of power and wider meaning: white, male and (sub)urban.
They have brought lock, stock and barrel into the mythology embroidered and perpetuated by a complex mix of nineteenth-century media and politics.
State support, itself based primarily on the need to maintain monetary incentives, rather than to compensate for inequalities ensures that these differences are perpetuated.
The divisions created in the colonial era and perpetuated in the post-colonial one may indeed be fraying at the edges.
The resulting typhoid ('enteric fever ' or maagkoors) epidemics claimed victims annually and the tenants' ignorance of basic hygiene perpetuated the cycle.
The ' war of independence ' inevitably served to intensify racial hostility, perpetuated as mutual mistrust thereafter since the negotiated settlement did not end the tension.
Women were excluded from inheritance as well as asset formation under the pre-war civil code, and such gender discrimination has been perpetuated.
