The act of committing crimes or causing something to become criminal.
Present participle of 'becrime,' using '-ing' to form a gerund describing the ongoing action of committing crime or making something criminal.
The gerund 'becriming' turns an action into a thing you can discuss—'the becriming of the city' in old texts means the process by which a city becomes full of crime. This nominalization was incredibly useful in older English for describing abstract processes.
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