Vergehen — meaning in English

English meaning

• misdemeanor noun A minor criminal offense, less serious than a felony and usually punished with a fine or short sentence.
• offense noun A wrongdoing, crime, or breach of a rule.
• pass verb To move from one place, position, or state to another.
• perpetration noun The act of carrying out a crime or other wrongdoing.
• vanish verb To disappear suddenly, or to go out of sight without being noticed.
• wrong adj Incorrect or not true.

Senses

Vergehen is used for these senses in English:

• elapse (intransitive, of time) To pass or move by.
• misdemeanor (law, criminology, historical, _, in, _, UK) A lesser criminal act in most common law legal systems, generally punished less severely than a felony.
• offense The act of offending.
• pass (transitive) To allow to go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
• perpetration Something (such as a crime) that is perpetrated
• summary offence (legal, British, Australian, Canadian, Hong Kong) A crime in some common law jurisdictions that can be proceeded against summarily, without the right to a jury trial and/or indictment, as required for an indictable offence.
• vanish (intransitive) To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.
• wrong Something that is immoral or not good.

offense — full definition

1. noun A wrongdoing, crime, or breach of a rule.
2. noun A feeling of hurt or anger caused by something insulting or disrespectful.
3. noun In sports, the team or players trying to score, as opposed to defense.

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