Crime

Noun

 * 1)  A specific act committed in violation of the law.
 * 2)  The practice or habit of committing crimes.
 * 3) offense, criminal offense, criminal offence, offence, law-breaking
 * 4) an act punishable by law
 * 5) an evil act not necessarily punishable by law

Adjectives for Crime
cherished; wretched; horrible; nameless; consummate; atrocious; conspicuous; inhuman; futile; prevailing; heinous; juvenile; unmilitary; sexual; solitary; hideous; unpardonable; darkest; inexplicable; absolute; flagitious; imputed; dreadful; reiterated; malicious; enormous; grave; legalized inexpiable; foul; dastardly;  monstrous; locutionary; godless; devastating; cloistered; subsequent; gory; imaginable; heathenish; organized; earthly; unknowing; successful; petty; blackest; heart-crazing; flagrant; diversified; gloomy; aboriginal; perfect; crowning; greedy; calculated; cunning; unnatural; nefarious; infamous; barbarous; abominable; obscene; grisly;  violent;   gruesome;  scandalous; brutal; fiendish; cowardly; ungrateful; hair-raising; unpunished; unsolved; unprevented; serious; professional; modern; vocal; attempted; conceivable; pitiful; incredible; organized; brutal; terrible; horrible; heinous; horrenous;  hideous; financial; sexual; international;

Verbs for Crime
abet—; accuse of—; allege—; alleviate—; assail—; atone for—; avenge—; avoid—; betray—; breed—; cancel—; charge with—; check—; cloak—; condone—; contemplate—; contrive—; cover—; detect—; diminish—; divulge—; eradicate—; expiate—; extenuate—; fatten on—; grapple with —; hatch—; impute—to; involve in—; mark with—; perpetuate—; plot—; predispose to—; prosecute—; punish—; reconstruct—;  restrain—;  sentence for—; smash—; sully with—; suspect of—; taint with—; uncover—; urge—; witness—; —flourishes ; —stains ; —thrives.

Synonyms for Crime
offense, misdeed, sin, wrong, transgression, misdemeanor, wickedness, outrage, vice, immorality, misdeed, infringement, depravity, felony, violation.

Antonyms for Crime
virtue, goodness, honor, uprightness, innocence, benignity, benevolence.

Derived terms

 * crime against humanity
 * crime against nature
 * crimebuster
 * crime index
 * crime mapping
 * crime rate


 * criminal
 * criminal law
 * criminal record
 * criminology
 * decriminalization
 * international crime


 * organised crime / organized crime
 * sexual crime
 * war crime
 * white collar crime

Thesaurus
atrocity, breach, break, crime against humanity, criminal tendency, criminality, criminosis, deadly sin, delict, delinquency, dereliction, enormity, error, evil, evil courses, evildoing, failure, fault, feloniousness, felony, genocide, guilty act, heavy sin, illegality, impropriety, indiscretion, inexpiable sin, infringement, iniquity, injury, injustice, lapse, lawbreaking, lawlessness, malefaction, malfeasance, malpractice, malum, malversation, minor wrong, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdoing, misfeasance, misprision, misprision of treason, mortal sin, nonfeasance, offense, omission, outrage, peccadillo, peccancy, positive misprision, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slip, thou scarlet sin, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, unutterable sin, venial sin, vice, viciousness, violation, wrong, wrong conduct, wrongdoing

Etymology
crimen from cernere

Translations

 * Amharic: ወንጀል (wonjel)
 * Arabic: جريمة
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: злачынства, злачын
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: crim,, delicte
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 罪, 罪行, 刑事犯罪, 犯罪
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: forbrydelse
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: kuritegu
 * Finnish:
 * French: crime
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: פשע
 * Hindi: अपराध
 * Hungarian: bűntény, bűntett
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 犯罪, 罪, 犯行
 * Kazakh: қылмыс
 * Korean: (犯罪)


 * Latin: scelus, facinus , maleficium
 * Latvian: noziegšanās, noziegums
 * Lithuanian: nusikaltimas, nusižengimas
 * Macedonian: криминал
 * Persian: جرم
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, злодеяние, злодейство
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: злочин
 * Roman: zločin
 * Slovak: zločin
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: குற்றம்
 * Thai: อาชญากรรม
 * Turkish: suç
 * Turkmen: jenaýat
 * Ukrainian: злочин
 * Urdu: اپرادھ
 * Vietnamese: tội ác
 * West Frisian:


 * Arabic: جريمة
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 罪行
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kriminalitet
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: kuritegevus
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: crime
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: פשע (pesha)


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 犯罪, 罪
 * Korean: (犯罪)
 * Kurdish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, преступность, криминал
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * : crim
 * : krimo (1,2)
 * : crime (1,2)
 * : έγκλημα [ˈe̞(ŋ)ɡliˌma] (2), αδίκημα [aˈðiciˌma], απάτη [aˈpati] , κακούργημα [kaˈkurʝiˌma]  (1, 2), παρανομία [paˌrano̞ˈmiˌa]  (1)
 * : פשע
 * : kejahatan
 * : nusikaltimas
 * : കുറ്റം, കുറ്റകൃത്യം
 * : weile
 * : (bezeh),  (jorm)
 * : infracţiune, delict
 * : నేరము (neramu) (1), నేరప్రవృత్తి (nerapravruthi) (2)
 * : suç [çu]

Noun

 * 1) crime
 * Le crime ne paie pas.
 * 1) murder, homicide

Related terms

 * criminalité
 * criminel


 * criminogène
 * criminologie

Anagrams

 * cimer
 * merci

Noun

 * 1) crime
 * O ladrão cometeu um crime horrível.
 * The thief committed a terrible crime.