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sexually assault, activity
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sexual assault, sexually assault
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- abduction
- abuse
- maltreatment
- molestation
- violation
- depredation
- despoilment
- despoliation
- pillage
- plunder
- plundering
- rapine
- spoliation
- criminal attack
- forcible violation
- statutory offense
- statutory rape
- assault
- attack
- molest
- abuse
- attack
- compromise
- corrupt
- deceive
- force
- ruin
- violate
- betray
- loot
- maraud
- plunder
- ransack
- rob
- pillage
- seize
- despoil
- sack
- spoliate
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How to use rape in a sentence
Murder, rape, arson, and a host of other atrocities are often the first evidence of a diseased brain.
ANCIENT FAITHS AND MODERNTHOMAS INMAN
He kept his promise, and then, after much entreaty, gave Helvetius a pinch of the powder—about as much as a rape-seed.
WITCH, WARLOCK, AND MAGICIANWILLIAM HENRY DAVENPORT ADAMS
Miss Laura cleaned each cage, and gave each bird some mixed rape and canary seed.
BEAUTIFUL JOEMARSHALL SAUNDERS
And anyhow he started in with his accustomed energy to rape the mysteries of the Costly Life, and become the calmest of its lords.
TONO BUNGAYH. G. WELLS
To this class belong all those half-grown girls who accuse men of seduction and rape.
CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGYHANS GROSS
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
WORDS RELATED TO RAPE
- appropriation
- kidnapping
- rape
- seizure
- theft
- advance
- aggression
- charge
- incursion
- invasion
- offensive
- onset
- onslaught
- rape
- storm
- storming
- strike
- violation
- abuse
- advance
- assail
- bash
- beset
- blast
- blitz
- bushwhack
- charge
- come down on
- go for
- haul off on
- invade
- jump
- jump down one’s throat
- jump on one’s case
- lay into
- let have it
- light into
- rape
- ruin
- set upon
- shoot down
- slam
- slap around
- storm
- strike
- trash
- violate
- work over
- zap
- advance
- aggression
- assailing
- assailment
- barrage
- blitz
- blitzkrieg
- charge
- defilement
- dirty deed
- drive
- encounter
- encroachment
- foray
- incursion
- initiative
- inroad
- intervention
- intrusion
- invasion
- irruption
- mugging
- offense
- offensive
- onrush
- onset
- onslaught
- outbreak
- push
- raid
- rape
- rush
- skirmish
- storming
- strike
- thrust
- violation
- volley
- accesses
- ailments
- bouts
- breakdowns
- convulsions
- diseases
- failures
- fits
- illnesses
- paroxysms
- relapses
- seizures
- spasms
- spells
- strokes
- throes
- abuse
- adulterate
- befoul
- besmirch
- contaminate
- debase
- deflower
- degrade
- desecrate
- dirty
- discolor
- disgrace
- dishonor
- hurt
- maculate
- make foul
- mess up
- molest
- muck up
- pollute
- profane
- rape
- ravish
- scuzz up
- seduce
- shame
- smear
- soil
- stain
- sully
- taint
- tar
- tarnish
- trash
- vitiate
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Princeton’s WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote
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rape, colza, Brassica napusnoun
Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop
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colza, violation, ravishment, rapine, assault -
rape, rapinenoun
the act of despoiling a country in warfare
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rape, violation, assault, ravishmentverb
the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will
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ravishment, violation, misdemeanor, irreverence, usurpation, infraction, rapine, assault, intrusion, infringement, misdemeanour, colza, trespass, entrancement, encroachment -
rape, ravish, violate, assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrageverb
force (someone) to have sex against their will
«The woman was raped on her way home at night»
Synonyms:
snipe, delight, set on, ravish, dishonour, scandalise, offend, enthrall, profane, scandalize, disgrace, plunder, desecrate, lash out, transgress, shame, assail, enthral, round, appal, attack, enrapture, despoil, dishonor, transport, breach, attaint, violate, infract, shock, outrage, appall, assault, break, enchant, go against, spoil -
rape, spoil, despoil, violate, plunderverb
destroy and strip of its possession
«The soldiers raped the beautiful country»
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baffle, pamper, frustrate, scotch, botch, foray, bilk, dishonour, itch, bungle, rifle, ravish, muck up, dishonor, mishandle, bumble, plunder, botch up, foil, blow, go bad, screw up, pillage, transgress, fumble, vitiate, flub, baby, impair, ball up, featherbed, bollocks up, loot, break, desecrate, despoil, bodge, mess up, sack, deflower, offend, thwart, louse up, breach, go against, mar, indulge, spoil, muff, violate, infract, strip, outrage, cocker, foul up, ransack, cross, fluff, assault, mollycoddle, bobble, profane, reave, coddle, bollix up, cosset, bollix, corrupt, bollocks
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Henry Cuellar:
As a lifelong Catholic, I have always been pro-life. As a Catholic, I do not support abortion, however, we can not have an outright ban. There must be exceptions in the case of rape, incest and danger to the life of the mother, additionally, my faith does not allow me to support extreme positions such as late term or partial birth abortions. My faith is clear : abortion must be rare safe.
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Dolly Kaushik:
In our country, fathers rape their daughters, most rape cases happen in the house.
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Bea Edwards:
A whistleblower can legitimately contact external authorities when there is imminent danger to public health and safety—presumably rape is that—or when there is a serious violation of international or national law, these children were hungry, displaced orphans, and the people abusing them were the people there to protect them.
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Harry Sandick:
It shows this Department of Justice — primarily, I would assume, the career staff — believes in this view of executive authority, that anything the president does, he does as president. Even talking about a rape allegation, the argument is not that different from saying anything the President does is within the scope of his employment.
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Ram Singh:
Now when they rape, they won’t leave the girl like we did. They will kill her. Before, they would rape and say,’ Leave her, she won’t tell anyone.’ Now when they rape, especially the criminal types, they will just kill the girl.
Translations for rape
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- verkragting, verkragAfrikaans
- اغتصب, غصب, اغتصابArabic
- гвалтаваць, згвалтаванне, згвалтавацьBelarusian
- изнасилване, изнасилвамBulgarian
- ধর্ষণBengali
- violacióCatalan, Valencian
- znásilnit, znásilněníCzech
- treisio, traisWelsh
- voldtage, voldtægtDanish
- schänden, Vergewaltigung, vergewaltigenGerman
- ασελγώ, βιασμός, κακοποιώ, βιάζωGreek
- seksatencoEsperanto
- violación, violarSpanish
- vägistamine, vägistama, vägistusEstonian
- تجاوز جنسی, تجاوز کردن, تجاوز, تجاوز به عنفPersian
- raiskaus, terttu, väkisinmakaaminen, raiskataFinnish
- neyðtaka, neyðtøkaFaroese
- violer, viol, piraterFrench
- éigniúIrish
- èigneachadh, èignichScottish Gaelic
- אונסHebrew
- बलात्कारHindi
- erőszakos közösülés, megerőszakolHungarian
- բռնաբարել, բռնաբարությունArmenian
- stupro, violar, stuprar, violationInterlingua
- memerkosa, pemerkosaanIndonesian
- valda spjöllum á, spilla, nauðgun, nauðgaIcelandic
- violare, stupro, stuprare, violento, violentareItalian
- 手篭, 強姦, レイプ, 手込めにする, 暴行, 手篭にする, 犯す, 手込めJapanese
- გაუპატიურებაGeorgian
- 강간Korean
- raptusLatin
- išprievartavimasLithuanian
- izvarošanaLatvian
- pāhera, pāwheraMāori
- силува, силувањеMacedonian
- ബലാത്സംഗംMalayalam
- बलात्कार करणेMarathi
- rogolMalay
- stupruMaltese
- voldtekt, voldtaNorwegian
- verkrachten, verkrachting, schendenDutch
- valdtekt, valdtaNorwegian Nynorsk
- voldtektNorwegian
- gwałcić, zgwałcić, naruszyć, gwałtPolish
- estupro, violentar, estuprarPortuguese
- răpi, viol, viola, răpireRomanian
- изнасиловать, изнасилование, насиловатьRussian
- sȉlovānje, silovati, силовање, силоватиSerbo-Croatian
- znásilnenie, znásilniťSlovak
- posilstvo, posilitiSlovene
- përdhunoj, përdhunimAlbanian
- våldtäkt, våldtaSwedish
- கற்பழிப்புTamil
- మానభంగం చేయు, మానభంగంTelugu
- ข่มขืนThai
- gahasa, reypTagalog
- ırza tecavüz, tecavüz etmek, ırza geçme, zor kullanmakTurkish
- згвалтування, зґвалтувати, згвалтувати, ґвалтувати, гвалтувати, зґвалтуванняUkrainian
- عصمت دریUrdu
- cưỡng hiếp, cưỡng dâmVietnamese
- שענדונגYiddish
- 强奸Chinese
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n
1 outrage, ravishment, sexual assault, violation
2 depredation, despoilment, despoliation, pillage, plundering, rapine, sack, spoliation
3 abuse, defilement, desecration, maltreatment, perversion, violation
vb
4 abuse, force, outrage, ravish, sexually assault, violate
5 despoil, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, sack, spoliate
English Collins Dictionary — English synonyms & Thesaurus
rape
( rapes plural & 3rd person present) ( raping present participle) ( raped past tense & past participle )
1 verb If someone is raped, they are forced to have sex, usually by violence or threats of violence.
A young woman was brutally raped in her own home… be V-ed
They’d held him down and raped him. V n
2 n-var Rape is the crime of forcing someone to have sex.
Almost ninety per cent of all rapes and violent assaults went unreported.
3 n-sing The rape of an area or of a country is the destruction or spoiling of it.
LITERARY the N of n
As a result of the rape of the forests, parts of the country are now short of water.
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oilseed rape
date rape
Date rape is when a man rapes a woman after having spent the evening socially with her. n-uncount
gang rape ( gang rapes 3rd person present) ( gang raping present participle) ( gang raped past tense & past participle ) , gang-rape If a woman is gang raped, several men force her to have sex with them. verb usu passive
For five hours, the women were gang-raped. be V-ed, Also V n
Gang rape is also a noun., n-count
oilseed rape , oil-seed rape Oilseed rape is a plant with yellow flowers which is grown as a crop. Its seeds are crushed to make cooking oil.
(BRIT) n-uncount
in AM, use rape
statutory rape
In the United States, statutory rape is the crime committed by an adult when they have sex with someone who is under the age when they can legally agree to have sex. n-uncount
Translation English Cobuild Collins Dictionary
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1
as in violation
the act of forcing a person to engage in sexual activity and especially intercourse
an international law defining rape as a war crime
2
as in kidnaping
the unlawful or forcible carrying away of a person or animal
the legend of the rape of the Sabine women by the ancient Romans was frequently depicted in classical art
as in to violate
to engage in sexual activity and especially intercourse with a person unwilling or unable to give consent
the defendant accused of raping the victim
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