perpetrator

auteur, coupable

Personne qui commet un crime ou un acte nuisible ou illégal.

En anglais simple : Someone who commits a crime or does something harmful or illegal.

• The police caught the perpetrator.
• Witnesses helped identify the perpetrators of the attack.
• The victim could not describe the perpetrator's face.

Comment l'utiliser : the perpetrator of something (Police arrested the perpetrator of the attack.)

Synonymes : offender, criminal, culprit

Expressions courantes : identify the perpetrator, alleged perpetrator, perpetrator of violence