crime
UK/kɹaɪm/
crime noun: a specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law.
Noun
crime (countable and uncountable, plural crimes)
- A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law.
- 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.2024 October 23, Tricia Escobedo, “AI-generated crimes, a treasure mystery, quick thinking by bus passengers: Catch up on the day’s stories”, in CNN, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2024
- Synonyms:
- criminal offence, unlawfulness
- Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.
- Those methods of saving money should be a crime.
- No crime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love.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...
- Synonyms:
- delinquency, wrongdoing, delict, error, malfeasance, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdoing, offense, peccadillo
- That which occasions crime.
- the tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 46
- Criminal acts collectively.
- an effort by the police to tackle crime in the city
- Trump’s crimes are considered white collar, which are usually nonviolent and often include fraud and corruption, according to the FBI. White collar crime “isn’t thought of as threatening in the same way as street crime, and high-status white offenders are not as burdened by criminal stigma,”...2024 December 15, Kaan Ozcan and Sabrina Clay, “These convicted felons say if Trump can be elected president they shouldn’t face a stigma when applying for jobs”, in CNN, archived from the original...
- Synonyms:
- criminality, delinquency
- The habit or practice of committing crimes.
- Crime doesn’t pay.
Verb
crime (third-person singular simple present crimes, present participle criming, simple past and past participle crimed)
- To subject to disciplinary punishment.
- 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 […]1846, John Mercier McMullen, Camp and Barrack-room, Or, The British Army as it is, page 298
- To commit crime.
- 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.1987, Robert Sampson, Yesterday's Faces: From the Dark Side, →ISBN, page 61
Proper noun capitalized: CRIME
CRIME
- A particular security exploit against secret Web cookies over connections using the HTTPS and SPDY protocols that also use data compression. It relies on observing the change in size of the compressed ciphertext for various inputs.
crime meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
crime in Hindi
- specific act committed in violation of the law
- अपराध aprādh, जुर्म jurm
crime in Tamil
- specific act committed in violation of the law
- குற்றம் kuṟṟam
crime in Marathi
- specific act committed in violation of the law
- बदकर्म badkarma
crime in Urdu
- specific act committed in violation of the law
- جُرْم jurm, اَپْرادھ aprādh, جِنایَت jināyat
More languagesFewer languages
- crime in Bengali
- অপরাধ oporadh
- crime in Telugu
- నేరము nēramu
- crime in Malayalam
- കുറ്റം kuṟṟaṁ, കുറ്റകൃത്യം kuṟṟakr̥tyaṁ
- crime in Kannada
- ಅಪರಾಧ aparādha, ತಕ್ಸೀರು taksīru
- crime in Punjabi
- ਜੁਰਮ juram, ਅਪਰਾਧ aparādh
- crime in Gujarati
- અપરાધ aparādh
- crime in Odia
- ଅପରାଧ aparādha
- crime in Sanskrit
- अकृत्य akṛtya, एनस् enas
- crime in Sinhala
- අපරාධය aparādhaya
- crime in Assamese
- অপৰাধ oporadh
- crime in Nepali
- अपराध aparādh
- crime in Pashto
- جنايت jenāyat
- crime in Tagalog
- krimen
- crime in Arabic
- جَرِيمَة jarīma, جِنَايَة jināya
- crime in Malay
- jenayah
- crime in Indonesian
- kejahatan, pelanggaran, pelanggaran hukum, kriminalitas
- crime in Thai
- อาชญากรรม àat-yaa-gam
- crime in Vietnamese
- tội ác, tội phạm
- crime in Myanmar
- ပြစ်မှု prachmu.
Examples of crime in a sentence
- Trump’s crimes are considered white collar, which are usually nonviolent and often include fraud and corruption, according to the FBI.2024 December 15, Kaan Ozcan and Sabrina Clay, “These convicted felons say if Trump can be elected president they shouldn’t face a stigma...
- White collar crime “isn’t thought of as threatening in the same way as street crime, and high-status white offenders are not as burdened by criminal stigma,” Western said.2024 December 15, Kaan Ozcan and Sabrina Clay, “These convicted felons say if Trump can be elected president they shouldn’t face a stigma...
- The State Department has given Ecuador $81 million since 2018 to help the country with its fight against organized crime and narcotics.2025 March 19, Hira Humayun and Michael Rios, “Ecuador’s president invites foreign armies to fight gangs in the country”, in CNN, archived...
Synonyms of crime
- criminal offence
- unlawfulness
- delinquency
- wrongdoing
- delict
- error
- malfeasance
- misdeed
- misdemeanor
- misdoing
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Antonyms
Forms of crime
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | crimes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | crimes |
| present participle | criming |
| past participle | crimed |
| past | crimed |
Origin of crime
From Middle English cryme, crime, from Old French crime, crimne, from Latin crīmen. Displaced native Old English firen.
Short for compression ratio info-leak made easy, chosen to spell the word crime.
Words formed from crime
- aftercrime
- anticrime
- autocrime
- biocrime
- capital crime
- consensual crime
- crimance
- crime-buster
- crime buster
- crimebuster
- crimebusting
- crime car
- crime doesn't pay
- crime-fighter
- crimefighter
- crime fighter
- 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
- envirocrime
- enviro-crime
Phrases with crime
- no crime
- sex crime
- war crime
- crime cars
- hate crime
- high crime
- time crime
- true crime
- crime lords
- crime rates
- crime waves
- knife crime
37 more phrasesFewer phrases
- petty crime
- youth crime
- crime scenes
- crime sheets
- street crime
- crime busters
- crime tourism
- perfect crime
- crime fighters
- stranger crime
- tough on crime
- child sex crime
- Costa del Crime
- crime ministers
- organised crime
- organized crime
- political crime
- crime of passion
- crime passionnel
- crime scene tape
- crime scientists
- partner in crime
- victimless crime
- crime scene tapes
- no body, no crime
- partners in crime
- occupational crime
- white-collar crime
- crime scene cleaner
- impediment of crime
- crime against nature
- crime scene cleaners
- impediments of crime
- organizational crime
- crime against humanity
- he who said the rhyme did the crime
- if you can't do the time, don't do the crime
Words that rhyme with crime
31 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about crime
- What does crime mean?
- Crime means a specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law.
- What is crime in Hindi?
- Crime in Hindi is अपराध (aprādh), जुर्म (jurm). See Crime meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use crime in a sentence?
- Trump’s crimes are considered white collar, which are usually nonviolent and often include fraud and corruption, according to the FBI.
- What part of speech is crime?
- Crime can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce crime?
- Crime is pronounced /kɹaɪm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of crime?
- The plural of crime is crimes.
Words near crime in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: crime (page history and authors); CRIME (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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