different between crime vs distress

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)

1. (countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
2. (countable) Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.
3. (countable, obsolete) That which occasions crime.
4. (uncountable) Criminal acts collectively.

   Synonyms: criminality, delinquency

5. (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)

1. (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 […]

2. (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)

1. 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)

1. (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

1. 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)

1. crime

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:crime.

Related terms

• criminal
• criminoso

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?krime]

Noun

crime f

1. indefinite plural of crim?
2. indefinite genitive/dative singular of crim?

English

Etymology

The verb is from Middle English distressen, from Old French destrecier (“to restrain, constrain, put in straits, afflict, distress”); compare French détresse. Ultimately from Medieval Latin as if *districtiare, an assumed frequentative form of Latin distringere (“to pull asunder, stretch out”), from dis- (“apart”) + stringere (“to draw tight, strain”).

The noun is from Middle English distresse, from Old French destrece, ultimately also from Latin distringere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??st??s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

distress (countable and uncountable, plural distresses)

1. (Cause of) discomfort.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:distress.
2. Serious danger.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:distress.
3. (medicine) An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
4. (law) A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
5. (law) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.

   • If he were not paid, he would straight go and take a distress of goods and cattle.

   • The distress thus taken must be proportioned to the thing distrained for.

Derived terms

• distress signal

Antonyms

• (maladaptive stress): eustress

Related terms

• distrain
• district

Translations

Verb

distress (third-person singular simple present distresses, present participle distressing, simple past and past participle distressed)

1. To cause strain or anxiety to someone.

   Synonyms: anguish, harrow, trouble, vex, torment, tantalize, tantalise, martyr
2. (law) To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.

   Synonym: distrain
3. To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.

   Synonyms: age, antique, patinate

Translations

Further reading

• distress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• distress in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• distress at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• disserts