different between crime vs torment

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

From Middle English torment, from Old French torment, from Latin tormentum (“something operated by twisting”), from torquere (“to twist”).

Pronunciation

• (noun) IPA^(key): /?t??(?)m?nt/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /t??(?)?m?nt/

Noun

torment (countable and uncountable, plural torments)

1. (obsolete) A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
2. Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
3. Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.

   He was bitter from the torments of the divorce.

   • They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:pain

Derived terms

• tormentous

Translations

Verb

torment (third-person singular simple present torments, present participle tormenting, simple past and past participle tormented)

1. (transitive) To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)

   The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.

   • 2013, Phil McNulty, "Man City 4-1 Man Utd", BBC Sport, 22 September 2013:

     Moyes, who never won a derby at Liverpool in 11 years as Everton manager, did not find the Etihad any more forgiving as City picked United apart in midfield, where Toure looked in a different class to United's £27.5m new boy Marouane Fellaini, and in defence as Aguero tormented Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand.

Derived terms

• tormentor

Translations

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French torment, from Latin tormentum.

Noun

torment (plural torments)

1. torment (suffering, pain)

Descendants

• English: torment

Middle French

Alternative forms

• tourment

Etymology

From Old French torment, from Latin tormentum.

Noun

torment m (plural torments)

1. torment; suffering; anguish

Old French

Alternative forms

• turment

Etymology

From Latin tormentum.

Noun

torment m (oblique plural tormenz or tormentz, nominative singular tormenz or tormentz, nominative plural torment)

1. torture
2. (figuratively, by extension) suffering; torment

Descendants

• Middle English: torment (borrowing)
  • English: torment
• Middle French: torment, tourment
  • French: tourment

References

• “tourment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin tormentum.

Noun

torment m (nominative singular torments)

1. suffering; torment

Descendants

• Catalan: turment
• Occitan: torment