crime

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹaɪm/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aɪm

Noun

crime (countable and uncountable, plural crimes)

1. (countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
2. (uncountable) The practice or habit of committing crimes.

   Crime doesn’t pay.

3. (uncountable) criminal acts collectively.
4. Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
   • Alexander Pope

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

5. (obsolete) That which occasions crime.
   • Spenser

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

Verb

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

1. (nonstandard, rare) To commit crime(s).
   • 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.

See also

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

Anagrams

• REMIC, merci

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁim/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

crime m (plural crimes)

1. crime (10 years and more according to law)

   Le crime ne paie pas.

2. murder, homicide

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• cimer
• merci

Noun

crime

1. Alternative form of cryme

Etymology

From French crime, from Latin crīmen.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾimɨ/

Noun

crime m (plural crimes)

1. crime

   O ladrão cometeu um crime horrível.

   The thief committed a terrible crime.