/kɹaɪm/
OriginFrom Middle English cryme, crime, from Old French crime, crimne, from Latin crīmen. Displaced native Old English firen.
- countableA 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 startu”
- countableAny great sin or wickedness; iniquity.
“Those methods of saving money should be a crime.”
“No crime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love.”
- countable, obsoleteThat which occasions crime.
“the tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall”
- uncountableCriminal acts collectively.
“an effort by the police to tackle crime in the city”
“The State Department has given Ecuador $81 million since 2018 to help the country with its fight against organized crime and narcotics.”
- uncountableThe habit or practice of committing crimes.
- UK, transitiveTo 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 […]”
- nonce-wordTo 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.”
- 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.
Formscrimes(plural) · crimes(present, singular, third-person) · criming(participle, present) · crimed(participle, past) · crimed(past)