crime

From Middle English cryme, crime, from Old French crime, crimne, from Latin crīmen. Displaced native Old English firen.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /kɹaɪm/

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• Rhymes: -aɪm

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.
   • 1687 (date written), Alexander Pope, “Ode for Musick on St. Cecilia’s Day”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], →OCLC, canto VI, page 376:

     No crime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love.

3. (countable, obsolete) That which occasions crime.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 46:

     the tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall

4. (uncountable) Criminal acts collectively.

   Synonyms: criminality, delinquency

5. (uncountable) The habit or practice of committing crimes.

   Crime doesn’t pay.

• crime on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

crime (third-person singular simple present crimes, present participle criming, simple past and past participle crimed)

1. (UK, 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.
   • 1987, Robert Sampson, Yesterday's Faces: From the Dark Side, →ISBN, page 61:

     If, during the 1920s, the master criminal was a gamester, criming for self expression, during the 1930s he performed in other ways for other purposes.

• delictual
• felony
• offence
• sin
• administrative infraction (less serious violation of the law)

• REMIC, merci

crime m (plural crímenes)

1. murder
2. crime

Inherited from Old French crimne, borrowed from Latin crīmen, from Proto-Italic *kreimen, from Proto-Indo-European *kréymn̥, from *krey- (“sieve”) + *-mn̥.

• IPA^(key): /kʁim/

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• Rhymes: -im

crime m (plural crimes)

1. a category of severe infractions within French law, comparable to a felony under United States laws. Crime are tied to the strongest of penalties,10 years and more according to law.

   Le meurtre, la trahison, ces sont les crimes punissable par la loi d'une peine lourde.

• délit

• “crime”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• cimer
• merci

Borrowed from Latin crīmen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkri.me/
• Rhymes: -ime
• Hyphenation: crì‧me

crime m (plural crimi)

1. (literary, rare) crime

   Synonyms: crimine, delitto

• crimine

• crime in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• cremi, merci

crime

1. Alternative form of cryme

Borrowed from French crime, from Latin crīmen.[1][2]

• Hyphenation: cri‧me

crime m (plural crimes)

1. crime

   O ladrão cometeu um crime horrível.

   The thief committed a terrible crime.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:crime.

• criminal
• criminoso

• IPA^(key): [ˈkrime]

crime f

1. inflection of crimă:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular