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1 ♦ crime
♦ crime /kraɪm/n.1 (leg.) reato; crimine; delitto: lesser crime, reato minore; serious crime, reato grave; crimine; capital crime, delitto capitale; a ghastly crime, un crimine orribile; a heinous crime, un crimine efferato; a monstrous crime, un delitto mostruoso; crime of passion, delitto passionale; a crime against humanity, un crimine contro l'umanità; motiveless crime, delitto senza movente; war crimes, crimini di guerra; the scene of the crime, la scena del delitto; to commit a crime, commettere un delitto; to perpetrate a crime, perpetrare un delitto2 (fig.) delitto; peccato: an unforgivable crime, un delitto imperdonabile; a foul crime, un infame delitto; It would be a crime to throw it away, sarebbe un delitto buttarlo via3 [u] crimine, crimini (pl.); criminalità: to prevent crime, prevenire il crimine; to combat (o to fight) crime, combattere il crimine (o la criminalità); Crime is on the increase, la criminalità è in aumento; organized crime, crimine organizzato; criminalità organizzata; juvenile crime, criminalità minorile; violent crime, crimini violenti; crime rate, tasso di criminalità; crime figures, statistiche relative alla criminalità; partner in crime, complice● crime and punishment, delitto e castigo □ crime fiction, narrativa gialla; giallistica □ crime-fighting, lotta contro il crimine □ crime-fighter, agente della polizia criminale □ ( USA) crime lab, (polizia) scientifica □ crime lord, signore del crimine; pezzo grosso della malavita □ (in GB) crime management unit, sezione investigativa ( della polizia) □ crime novel, giallo □ crime prevention, prevenzione del crimine □ (in GB) crime report number, numero della denuncia del reato □ (giorn.) crime reporter, cronista di cronaca nera □ (mil.) crime sheet, foglio delle punizioni □ crime squad, squadra anticrimine □ crime wave, ondata di delitti □ crime writer, scrittore di gialli; giallista □ a life in crime, una vita da criminale □ (prov.) Crime doesn't pay, il delitto non paga. -
2 murder
I 1. ['mɜːdə(r)]1) dir. (crime) omicidio m., assassinio m.2) colloq. (hell)2.murder story o mystery — giallo, poliziesco
••to get away with murder — [ dishonest people] farla franca
II ['mɜːdə(r)]to scream o yell blue BE o bloody AE murder — colloq. [ child] urlare a squarciagola
1) dir. (kill) assassinare, uccidereI could murder that woman! — colloq. fig. la ammazzerei, quella donna!
2) colloq. (ruin) massacrare [language, piece of music]; (defeat) massacrare, distruggere [ opponents]* * *['mə:də] 1. noun1) ((an act of) killing a person on purpose and illegally: The police are treating his death as a case of murder; an increase in the number of murders.) assassinio2) (any killing or causing of death that is considered as bad as this: the murder of innocent people by terrorists.) assassinio2. verb(to kill (a person) on purpose and illegally: He murdered two children.) assassinare- murderer- murderous
- murderously* * *I 1. ['mɜːdə(r)]1) dir. (crime) omicidio m., assassinio m.2) colloq. (hell)2.murder story o mystery — giallo, poliziesco
••to get away with murder — [ dishonest people] farla franca
II ['mɜːdə(r)]to scream o yell blue BE o bloody AE murder — colloq. [ child] urlare a squarciagola
1) dir. (kill) assassinare, uccidereI could murder that woman! — colloq. fig. la ammazzerei, quella donna!
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