| crime | (noun) (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act | Synonyms: criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking |
|---|
| (noun) an evil act not necessarily punishable by law | - |
| criminal | (adjective) guilty of crime or serious offense | - |
|---|
| (adjective) involving or being or having the nature of a crime | Synonyms: felonious |
| (adjective) bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure | Synonyms: condemnable, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious |
| (noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw |
| criminalisation | (noun) legislation that makes something illegal | Synonyms: criminalization |
|---|
| criminalise | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw |
|---|
| criminalism | (noun) the state of being a criminal | Synonyms: criminality, criminalness |
|---|
| criminality | (noun) the state of being a criminal | Synonyms: criminalism, criminalness |
|---|
| criminalization | (noun) legislation that makes something illegal | Synonyms: criminalisation |
|---|
| criminalize | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw |
|---|
| (verb) treat as a criminal | - |
| criminally | (adverb) in violation of the law; in a criminal manner | - |
|---|
| (adverb) in a shameful manner | Synonyms: reprehensively |
| criminalness | (noun) the state of being a criminal | Synonyms: criminalism, criminality |
|---|
| criminate | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, impeach, incriminate |
|---|
| (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: censure, reprimand |
| criminative | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminatory, incriminating, incriminatory |
|---|
| criminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, incriminating, incriminatory |
|---|
| criminological | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in criminology | - |
|---|
| criminologist | (noun) a specialist in criminology | - |
|---|
| criminology | (noun) the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior and law enforcement | - |
|---|
| crimp | (noun) a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled | - |
|---|
| (noun) someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers | Synonyms: crimper |
| (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crease, flexure, fold, plication |
| (verb) curl tightly | Synonyms: crape, frizz, frizzle, kink, kink up |
| (verb) make ridges into by pinching together | Synonyms: pinch |
| crimper | (noun) a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it | Synonyms: curler, hair curler, roller |
|---|
| (noun) a hand tool used for joining two pieces of metal or other ductile material (usually a wire and a metal plate) by deforming one or both of them to hold the other. | Synonyms: crimping pliers |
| (noun) someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers | Synonyms: crimp |
| crimson | (adjective) characterized by violence or bloodshed | Synonyms: red, violent |
|---|
| (adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies | Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry-red, cherry, red, reddish, ruby-red, ruby, ruddy, scarlet |
| (adjective) (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion | Synonyms: flushed, red-faced, red, reddened |
| (noun) a deep and vivid red color | Synonyms: deep red, ruby |
| (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: blush, flush, redden |