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hatecrime

hatecrime is the alternative form of hate-crime.

Meaning of hate-crime

Verb

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

  1. (informal) To subject (someone) to a hate crime; to commit a hate crime (against).
    • "I just paid five g's to get your hate-criming ass out of jail! You better recognize!"2011, Peter Nathaniel Malae, What We Are: A Novel, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., →ISBN

Forms of hatecrime

third-person singular presenthatecrimes
present participlehatecriming
past participlehatecrimed
pasthatecrimed

Questions about hatecrime

What is hatecrime the alternative form of?
Hatecrime is the alternative form of hate-crime.

Words near hatecrime in the dictionary

  1. hateable
  2. hateblog
  3. hateblogs
  4. hateboner
  5. hateboners
  6. hatecrime
  7. hatecrimed
  8. hatecrimes
  9. hatecriming
  10. hated
  11. hated on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hatecrime (page history and authors); hate-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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