If you have been treated for Chlamydia, you should not have oral, anal or vaginal sex until 7 days after your treatment is over. If your sex partners are being treated for this STD, you should wait to have sex until 7 days after they take all of their medicine.
verb. Perpetuated is defined as something continued, something preserved or something allowed to go on. When you heard a rumor about something and you added to the rumor, this is an example of how you perpetuated the story.
Some things should last forever and others should not be perpetuated at all. Things that should NOT be perpetuated? Ugly rumors, arms races, and your Aunt Martha's annual fruit cake. Be careful not to confuse perpetuate with perpetrate. Although they differ in spelling by only one letter, they differ greatly in meaning. If you perpetuate something, you help it last.