crime

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

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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.

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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.

• 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