bolster, continue, eternalize, extend, hold, keep, keep fresh, keep on, lengthen, memorialize, perennialize, preserve from oblivion, protract, secure, sustain
Definitionv. cause to continue or prevail
Last update: December 12, 2016
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These measures will only perpetuate the hostility between the two nations. [verb]
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If you yell at Jane after she yells at you, your actions will only perpetuate the argument. [verb]
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Nathan’s bad behavior only served to perpetuate his teacher’s negative opinion of him. [Please select]
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As archbishop of Toledo he exerted himself to protect the clergy from the obligation to pay the excises or octroi duties known as "the millions" and thereby helped to perpetuate the financial embarrassments of the government. [Please select]
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We were the first to perpetuate events by records kept. [Please select]
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An incorporated salon, however, would be a grand thing, if only because it would perpetuate the salon. [Please select]
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The Great Peacock exists as a butterfly only to perpetuate itself. [Please select]
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She felt an intense longing to prolong, to perpetuate, the momentary exaltation of her spirit. [Please select]
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We require _life_ in history, and it is for their vividness that the writings of Livy and Tacitus will be perpetuated. [Please select]
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Of course he was not a favorite with the senators, who wished to perpetuate abuses. [Please select]
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