Definition of "crime"

crime

/kɹaɪm/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural crimes
1. (countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
2. (countable) Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.
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  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, […], canto VI, page 376
3. (countable, obsolete) That which occasions crime.
  Quotations
  the tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 46
4. (uncountable) Criminal acts collectively.
5. (uncountable) The habit or practice of committing crimes.
verb
third-person singular simple present crimes, present participle criming, simple past and past participle crimed
1. (UK, military, transitive) To subject to disciplinary punishment.
  Quotations
  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.
  Quotations
  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, page 61

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