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crime
English
Etymology
From Middle English cryme, crime, from Old French crime, crimne, from Latin cr?men. Displaced native Old English firen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?a?m/
- Rhymes: -a?m
Noun
crime (countable and uncountable, plural crimes)
- (countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
- (countable) Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.
- (countable, obsolete) That which occasions crime.
- (uncountable) Criminal acts collectively.
- Synonyms: criminality, delinquency
- (uncountable) The habit or practice of committing crimes.
Usage notes
- Adjectives often applied to crime: organized, brutal, terrible, horrible, heinous, horrendous, hideous, financial, sexual, international.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
References
- crime on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
crime (third-person singular simple present crimes, present participle criming, simple past and past participle crimed)
- (Britain, military, transitive) To subject to disciplinary punishment.
- 1846, John Mercier McMullen, Camp and Barrack-room, Or, The British Army as it is (page 298)
- Nevertheless, in the course of a few days he is again intoxicated, creates disturbance in his quarters, is confined by his sergeant, crimed, and brought before the commanding officer […]
- 1846, John Mercier McMullen, Camp and Barrack-room, Or, The British Army as it is (page 298)
- (nonce word) To commit crime(s).
See also
- offence
- sin
- administrative infraction (less serious violation of the law)
Anagrams
- REMIC, merci
French
Etymology
From Old French crimne, borrowed from Latin cr?men, from Proto-Italic *kreimen, from Proto-Indo-European *kréymn?, from *krey- (“sieve”) + *-mn?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?im/
- Rhymes: -im
Noun
crime m (plural crimes)
- A category of severe infractions within French law, with the strongest of penalties; a felony. (10 years and more according to law)
- Le meurtre, la trahison, ces sont les crimes punissable par la loi d'une peine lourde.
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
- délit
Further reading
- “crime” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- cimer
- merci
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cr?men.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kri.me/
- Hyphenation: crì?me
Noun
crime m (plural crimi)
- (literary, rare) crime
- Synonyms: crimine, delitto
Related terms
- crimine
References
- crime in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Middle English
Noun
crime
- Alternative form of cryme
Portuguese
Etymology
From French crime, from Latin cr?men.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?kri.mi/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /?k?im?/
Noun
crime m (plural crimes)
- crime
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:crime.
Related terms
- criminal
- criminoso
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?krime]
Noun
crime f
- indefinite plural of crim?
- indefinite genitive/dative singular of crim?
crime From the web:
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crookery
English
Etymology
crook +? -ery
Noun
crookery (countable and uncountable, plural crookeries)
- The activities of crooks; crime.
- 1959, Roald Dahl, Parson's Pleasure
- It was always intriguing to hear about some new form of crookery or deception.
- 2008, Alistair Cooke, Alistair Cooke's America
- What the people never knew at the time was the scale and audacity of the crookeries of Harding's advisers. In 1923 the Senate investigated 'irregularities' in the Veterans' Bureau. It had been defrauded of tidy sums by its chief […]
- 1959, Roald Dahl, Parson's Pleasure
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