Definition of perpetrator in English:
perpetrator
noun ˈpəːpətreɪtəˈpərpəˌtreɪdər
A person who carries out a harmful, illegal, or immoral act.
the perpetrators of this horrific crime must be brought to justice
Example sentencesExamples
- Individuals with serious mental illness are, in fact, more likely to be victims, rather than perpetrators of violence.
- Few of the perpetrators have been brought to justice.
- Those perpetrators are hereby sentenced to remain a thousand yards away from any computer equipment, lest they be apprehended on sight.
- It's more of a drug movie than a sex movie, culminating in an horrific murder, of which the perpetrators remember nothing.
- They would close ranks around individual perpetrators to protect them from any threat of prosecution by state or federal authorities.
- Even now, the offspring of the perpetrators deny it ever happened.
- We see the victim gradually change through the force of his anguish into a senseless perpetrator.
- She plays a super-cop whose main submission tactic is revealing her breasts, so perpetrators are lulled into boredom.
- He's really a cop going undercover to find the perpetrators of a series of daring hijackings.
- A number of memoirs published over the last 20 years have shifted their focus from the victim/perpetrator relationship to the survivor/rescuer relationship.
Definition of perpetrator in US English:
perpetrator
nounˈpərpəˌtrādərˈpərpəˌtreɪdər
A person who carries out a harmful, illegal, or immoral act.
the perpetrators of this horrific crime must be brought to justice
Example sentencesExamples
- Individuals with serious mental illness are, in fact, more likely to be victims, rather than perpetrators of violence.
- Those perpetrators are hereby sentenced to remain a thousand yards away from any computer equipment, lest they be apprehended on sight.
- Few of the perpetrators have been brought to justice.
- Even now, the offspring of the perpetrators deny it ever happened.
- He's really a cop going undercover to find the perpetrators of a series of daring hijackings.
- It's more of a drug movie than a sex movie, culminating in an horrific murder, of which the perpetrators remember nothing.
- They would close ranks around individual perpetrators to protect them from any threat of prosecution by state or federal authorities.
- She plays a super-cop whose main submission tactic is revealing her breasts, so perpetrators are lulled into boredom.
- A number of memoirs published over the last 20 years have shifted their focus from the victim/perpetrator relationship to the survivor/rescuer relationship.
- We see the victim gradually change through the force of his anguish into a senseless perpetrator.