crime
Noun
(countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
(uncountable) The practice or habit of committing crimes.
- Crime doesn’t pay.
(uncountable) criminal acts collectively.
Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
* Alexander Pope
- No crime‘ was thine, if ’tis no ‘ crime to love.
(obsolete) That which occasions crime.
* Spenser
- the tree of life, the crime of our first father’s fall
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to “crime”: organized, brutal, terrible, horrible, heinous, horrendous, hideous, financial, sexual, international.
Synonyms
* (criminal acts collectively) delinquency, crime rate, criminality
Derived terms
* crime against humanity
* crime against nature
* crimebuster
* crime index
* crime mapping
* crime rate
* criminal
* criminal law
* criminal record
* criminology
* decriminalization
* international crime
* organised crime / organized crime
* sexual crime
* war crime
* white collar crime
Verb
(en-verb)
To commit (s).
* 1987 , Robert Sampson, Yesterday’s Faces: From the Dark Side (ISBN 0879723637), 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)
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punishment
English
Noun
(en noun )
The act or process of punishing, imposing and/or applying a sanction.
A penalty to punish wrongdoing, especially for crime.
A suffering by pain or loss imposed as retribution
(figuratively) Any treatment or experience so harsh it feels like being punished; rough handling
- a vehicle that can take a lot of punishment
Synonyms
* castigation
* punition
* beating
Derived terms
* corporal punishment
* mirror punishment
* (l)
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