Entry Word: perpetuate

Function: verb

Meaning: to give eternal or lasting existence to <we hope to perpetuate this holiday tradition>

Synonyms immortalize

Related Words commemorate, memorialize; celebrate, enshrine, honor; conserve, keep up, maintain, preserve, support, sustain; defend, guard, protect, safeguard

Near Antonyms extinguish, put out, snuff (out); annihilate, crush, decimate, demolish, destroy, devastate; eradicate, erase, expunge, extirpate, obliterate, wipe out