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crime

/kɹaɪm/ sustantivo A2

En español: delito, crimen, delinquir, delincuencia

  1. A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law. (countable) · the commission of a crime
  2. Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity. (countable) · Those methods of saving money should be a crime.
  3. Criminal acts collectively. (uncountable) · an effort by the police to tackle crime in the city
  4. The habit or practice of committing crimes. (uncountable) · Crime doesn’t pay.

Plural crimes

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I know not, sir, when I got this habit of yawning, nor whether these attacks of howling were inflicted on me as a judgment for my crimes, or for any other cause; but this I do know, that when I yawn for the third time, I actually turn into a wolf and attack men.” With this speech he commenced a second fit of yawning and again howled like a wolf, as he had at first.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 66 · B2
Some time after, the Shepherd, being imprisoned on a false accusation, was condemned “to be cast to the Lions” as the punishment for his imputed crime.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 97 · B2
She had thrown them in there at the first opportunity to remove the last trace of her crime.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 25 · B2
Of the woman nothing was ever heard, and the probability is that she got away out of England and carried herself and the memory of her crime to some land beyond the seas.”
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 28 · B2

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