crime
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English cryme, crime, from Old French crime, crimne, from Latin crīmen. Displaced native Old English firen.
Inflected forms:
form: crimes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crimes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: criming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crimed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crimed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: the commission of a crime
The generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, can be duped into providing detailed advice on how to commit crimes — ranging from money laundering to the export of weapons to sanctioned countries — a tech startup found.
gloss: Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Those methods of saving money should be a crime.
No crime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love.
gloss: That which occasions crime.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
examples: the tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall
gloss: Criminal acts collectively.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: an effort by the police to tackle crime in the city
The State Department has given Ecuador $81 million since 2018 to help the country with its fight against organized crime and narcotics.
gloss: The habit or practice of committing crimes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Crime doesn’t pay.
gloss: To subject to disciplinary punishment.
pos: verb
tags: UK
transitive
examples: 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 […]
gloss: To commit crime.
pos: verb
tags: nonce-word
examples: 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.
Synonyms: crime
criminal offence
criminality
delinquency
malefaction
perpetration
unlaw
unlawfulness
Antonyms: noncrime
Related words: delictual
felony
offence
sin
administrative infraction
Derived words: aftercrime
anticrime
autocrime
biocrime
capital crime
consensual crime
crimance
crime buster
crimebuster
crime-buster
crimebusting
crime car
crime doesn't pay
crime fighter
crime-fighter
crimefighter
crimefighting
crime-free
crimefree
crimeful
crime index
crimeless
crimelike
crime lord
crime mapping
crime minister
crime passionel
crimeproof
crime rate
crime-ridden
crimeridden
crime scene
crime science
crime scientist
crime sheet
crimestopper
crimethink
crimeware
crime wave
crimewave
crimie
criminal
criminal law
criminally
criminal record
criminological
criminologically
criminologist
criminology
crimo
crimogenic
cybercrime
decrime
decriminalisation
decriminalization
decriminalise
decriminalize
e-crime
enviro-crime
envirocrime
facecrime
hate-crime
he who said the rhyme did the crime
impediment of crime
knife crime
knifecrime
no-crime
no crime
noncrime
noncriminal
occupational crime
organizational crime
partner in crime
perfect crime
political crime
pre-crime
precrime
recriminalisation
recriminalization
recriminalise
recriminalize
stranger crime
street crime
thoughtcrime
tough on crime
true crime
uncrime
victimless crime
white-collar crime
youth crime
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