English Explanatory Dictionary

crime

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law.
  2. Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.
  3. That which occasions crime.
  4. Criminal acts collectively.
  5. The habit or practice of committing crimes.
verb
  1. To subject to disciplinary punishment.
  2. To commit crime.
name
  1. 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.

Pronunciation

/kɹaɪm/ En-us-crime.ogg

Word forms

crime crimes criming crimed

Etymology

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

Synonyms

crime criminal offence criminality delinquency malefaction perpetration unlaw unlawfulness wrongdoing delict error malfeasance misdeed misdemeanor misdoing offense peccadillo sin tort tortfeasance transgression veniality wrong

Antonyms

noncrime

Related words

delictual felony offence sin administrative infraction

Derived words

aftercrime anticrime autocrime biocrime capital crime consensual crime crimance crime buster crimebuster crime-buster crimebusting crime car crime doesn't pay crime fighter crime-fighter crimefighter 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 enviro-crime envirocrime
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