perpetuate

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  1. transitive verb To cause to continue indefinitely; make perpetual.
  2. transitive verb To prolong the existence of; cause to be remembered: The new library will perpetuate its founder's great love of learning.

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  • To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union even by war, while the Government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it. —  KIKO'S HOUSE
  • I realize that this is a rather slim reed to hang on to; yet it is a mighty oak when compared to a hope invested in leaders who protect and promote torturers, who perpetuate -- and laud -- mass war crimes, who expand tyrannical powers, and who a tiny, rapacious elite in ascendancy.
  • One of the great lies that President Obama continues to try to perpetuate is to say that —  Latest Articles
  • I believe your intention is to perpetuate, and not to weaken, the ties between me and my other and far dearer self. —  A Tale of Two Cities
  • You, so bright in soul and intellect, surrounded by admiring friends and all the luxuries of princely wealth, with a son to perpetuate your name Say no more," interrupted the afflicted man. —  Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
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perpetuate:   perpetuating ·  perpetuated ·  perpetuates
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  1. Latin perpetuāre, perpetuāt-, from perpetuus, continuous; see perpetual.

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  1. from Latin perpetuatus, past participle of perpetuare (later Italian perpetuare = Spanish Portuguese perpetuar = French perpétuer), make perpetual, from perpetuus, continuous, perpetual: see perpetual.
  2. from Latin perpetuatus, PP.: see the verb.
 

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/pərˈpɛtʃjueɪt/
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