Word.ws English Dictionary

crimed

crimed is the simple past and past participle of crime.

Meaning of crime

Verb

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

  1. (UK, transitive) 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
  2. (nonce-word) 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

See all 8 meanings of crime

Phrases with crimed

Questions about crimed

What is crimed the simple past and past participle of?
Crimed is the simple past and past participle of crime.

Words near crimed in the dictionary

  1. Crimean War
  2. Crimeans
  3. crimebuster
  4. crimebusters
  5. crimebusting
  6. crimed
  7. crimefighter
  8. crimefighters
  9. crimefighting
  10. crimefree
  11. crimeful

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: crimed (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “crimed.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/crimed. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.