English

knifecrime

From knife + crime.

A compound of knife + crime

Old English cnīf

Middle English knyf ‘knife’

English knife

Latin crīmen ‘charge, crime’

Old French crime

Middle English cryme ‘crime’

English crime

Today it means

noun To stab

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