单词	crime wave
释义	crime waveˈcrime wave noun [singular] Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Along with other rural areas, the villages have suffered a crime wave recently. He believes the police are overstretched and moves are urgently needed to tackle Darlington's crime wave. He was part of a crime wave that shot up a house, robbed some one and then killed some one else. On Wednesday, he said he will help Maskhadov fight a postwar crime wave. The crime wave that spurred them has been falling steadily in times of greater economic prosperity. The sheer scale of the crime wave was uncovered by the Labour Party from official figures. a sudden large increase in the amount of crime in an area:  More police officers are being brought in to help tackle the current crime wave.
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