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To attack someone and take their money or belongings.
Ex: I was walking through the corridors of the supermarket, when some guy tried to mug me and take my wallet. |
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To enter a building or someone's home to steal money or their belongings.
Ex: Someone tried to enter your house last night, he must wanted to burgle your things. |
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To take things or people from one place to another illegally.
Ex: Look, there's an article that says that the police has arrested someone who tried smuggling thousands of money. |
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| The act of obtaining money from someone by threatening to harm them or tell everybody about a secret they have. |
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| To obtain money from someone by threatening to harm then or tell somebody about a secret they have. |
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| Ex: He couldn't do anything, because the director blackmailed him by threatening to expel him out of the school. |
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| The crime of deliberately killing someone. |
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To deliberately killing someone.
Ex: He has been sentenced to 4 years in jail for murdering his own wife. |
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| To take control of an aircraft or other form of transport, often using violence. |
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| The act of taking control of an aircraft or other form of transport, often using violence. |
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| Ex: Some unrecognised men, tried to hijack the plane that was flying yesterday to London . |
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| To take someone away and keep them in a secret place while demanding money for their return. |
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| The act of taking someone away and keep them in a secret place while demanding money for their return. |
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| Ex: It's a really strange case, as she has been tried to be kidnapped more than once and by the same group of people |
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| To be violent or cruel to someone. |
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Violent or cruel behaviour.
Ex: She now has a bodyguard, after being abused by her husband several times. |
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| Crime where someone in business or an office worker takes money illegally from their employer or people by manipulating systems or processes. |
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| Ex: No one wants to hire him, after his incidence of white-collar crime with his previous company. |
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Criminal activities planned and carried out by large powerful groups of criminals.
Ex: It is said that the robbery from past week, was an organised crime. |
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| A violent attack on someone. |
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To violently attack someone.
Ex: The witness recognised the person who committed the assault. |
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The act of intentionally starting a fire in a building to damage or destroy it.
Ex: He is being searched by the police, because of numerous acts of arson he has carried out. |
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| Someone who steals things from someone's bag or pockets, often in a crowded place. |
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| Ex: He couldn't see or follow the pickpocket who had stollen his wallet, as there was too many people in the square. |
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The crime of deliberately damaging someone's property.
Ex: The numbers of vandalism on this neighbourhood, have increased a lot during the last year. |
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To persistenly follow someone either physically or online.
Ex: Nowadays, there are many cases of people who stalk children on their online accounts. |
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