crime
/kɹaɪm/ verb C2- To commit crime.
He/she/it crimes · Past crimed · Past participle crimed · -ing form criming
Verb forms
- Base form
- crime
- He/she/it
- crimes
- Past
- crimed
- Past participle
- crimed
- -ing form
- criming
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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.
She had thrown them in there at the first opportunity to remove the last trace of her crime.
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.”
They led, however, in an indirect fashion to a singular and complex problem which gave my friend an opportunity of demonstrating the value of a fresh weapon among the many with which he waged his life-long battle against crime.
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