rape
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English rapen, rappen (“to abduct; ravish; seduce; rape; seize; snatch; carry off; transport”), probably from Latin rapiō (verb), possibly through or influenced by Anglo-Norman rap, rape (noun) (compare also ravish). But compare Swedish rappa (“to snatch, seize, carry off”), Low German rapen (“to snatch, seize”), Dutch rapen (“to pick up, gather, collect”); the relationship with Germanic forms is not clear. Cognate with Lithuanian reikėti (“to be in need”). Compare also rap (“seize, snatch”). Further, some senses may be from Etymology 3, an Old Norse word.
Inflected forms:
form: rapes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rapes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: raping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: raped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: raped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of forcing sex upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally coitus forced by a man on a woman, but now generally any sex act forced by any person upon another person, regardless of gender; by extension, any non-consensual sex act forced on or perpetrated by any being.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I fled; but he pursued (though more, it seems,
 Inflamed with lust than rage), and, swifter far,
 Me overtook, his mother, all dismayed,
 And, in embraces forcible and foul
 Engendering with me, of that rape begot
 These yelling monsters […]
Last April the media world exploded in indignation at the rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park.
Castor and Pollux are one set of twins birthed by Leda after her rape by Zeus in swan form; […]
For quotations using this term, see Citations:rape.
gloss: An experience that is pleasant for one party and unpleasant for the other, particularly when the unwilling partner's suffering is worse than necessary.
pos: noun
tags: countable
offensive
slang
sometimes
uncountable
gloss: An experience that is pleasant for one party and unpleasant for the other, particularly when the unwilling partner's suffering is worse than necessary.
pos: noun
tags: countable
offensive
slang
sometimes
uncountable
examples: The ear rape of that concert was so bad I can't even listen to their songs at work anymore.
gloss: The taking of something by force; seizure, plunder.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: the Rape of Nanjing
Ruin'd orphans of thy rapes complain.
Ellery Queen deals entirely in murders; you are not fobbed off, as you are with Mr. Leslie Charteris's Saint, with pablum about the rape of the dowager's emeralds, or the theft of the blueprint of the newest submarine.
She worked under the great tapestry with its glowing but subdued tones—huntsmen with lofted horns had been running down a female stag. After the rape, leaving the grooms to bring the trophy home, they galloped away into the soft brumous Italian skyline; […]
Few of the Teleri were willing to go forth to war, for they remembered the slaying at the Swanhaven, and the rape of their ships.
gloss: The abduction of a woman, especially for sexual purposes.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Sat. Traytor, if Rome haue law, or we haue power,
 Thou and thy Faction shall repent this Rape.
 Bass. Rape call you it my Lord, to cease my owne,
 My true betrothed Loue, and now my wife?
The tale of the rape of Lucretia, for example, is hardly tellable - as many Roman writers themselves discovered - without raising the question of where seduction ends and rape begins; the rape of the Sabines puts a similar question mark over the distinction between rape and marriage.
gloss: That which is snatched away.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Where now are all my hopes? O, never more. / Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore.
gloss: Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."
"They taught us nothing but how to cheat, curse and abuse. I never killed in cold blood even if I was known as one of the most fearless fighters. Yes, I abducted several children, I robbed and beat, but I never raped."
[…] in the country of my birth […] my attack now "counts," and my rapist could be prosecuted […] In the place in which I live today, he could not. The statute in my current state of residence reserves that term for the forcible insertion of a penis into a vagina—a definition that allows me, other similarly situated men, and innumerable women whose attacks did not conform to that particular model, to experience the perverse harm of switching between the ranks of the raped and the unraped merely by stepping on board an airplane for a few hours.
gloss: To seize by force. (Now often with sexual overtones.)
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Dr Ashok's eyes had a tendency to pop whenever he wanted to rape your attention.
It is six years since my just action to reclaim the armaments raped from here by the Lairds of Dalgetty and Tolly […].
gloss: To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Paridell rapeth Hellenore:
 Malbecco her pursewes:
 Findes emongst Satyres, whence with him
 To turne she doth refuse.
A Princess rap’d transcends a Navy storm'd.
gloss: To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I raped your richest roadstead—I plundered Singapore!
They come out here in their perky little foreign cars, fifty pounds of American copper in each one, and tell us we're earth-raping monsters.
We've raped the land for power and possession / Two thousand years and all we'll have is a planetary toxic deathbed
gloss: To subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.
pos: verb
tags: offensive
slang
sometimes
examples: I attended, the mothers went around the circle, introducing themselves. They added a brief statement about their own experiences with vaccine for the reporter’s benefit. Dionne said that she felt “raped” when she was forced to give Tate some vaccinations.
gloss: To subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.
pos: verb
tags: offensive
slang
sometimes
examples: My experienced opponent will rape me at chess.
gloss: To subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.
pos: verb
tags: offensive
slang
sometimes
examples: Have you seen the prices in that store lately? I got raped for $20 just buying a sandwich.
Synonyms: abuse
constuprate
defile
defoul
dishonour
force
misuse
oppress
outrage
pollute
rape
ravage
ravish
r-word
scotch
turn out
violate
viole
vitiate
grape
Derived words: acquaintance rape
antirape
ass rape
ass-rape
attempted rape
base rape
cyberrape
date rape
date-rape
divorce rape
ear rape
eyerape
eye-rape
firewood rape
gang rape
gang-rape
gate rape
gray rape
hypnorape
marital rape
mind rape
mouth rape
nonrape
prison rape
pseudorape
quasirape
rape alarm
rape ape
rape camp
rape card
rape culture
rapedoll
rape face
rapefest
rapefic
rapefugee
rape kit
rapeling
rapemeat
rape of Africa
rapeplay
raper
rape rack
rape shield
rape test kit
rape tool
rapetoy
rape trauma syndrome
rape tree
rapette
rape van
rape whistle
rapey
rapism
rapo
regret rape
retroactive rape
reverse rape
self-rape
spousal rape
statutory rape
war rape
butt-rape
corrective rape
frape
unrapeability
rapelike
I've been raped
rapability
rapable
rapeable
rapeability
rapee
rapingly
rapist
rerape
unrape
unraped
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: smadre
lang: Danish
word: skænde
lang: Dutch
word: verkrachten
lang: Dutch
word: schenden
lang: Faroese
word: neyðtaka
lang: Finnish
word: raiskata
lang: French
word: pirater
lang: German
word: verderben
lang: German
word: schänden
lang: German
word: plündern
lang: German
word: vergewaltigen
lang: Greek
word: ασελγώ
roman: aselgó
lang: Greek
word: κακοποιώ
roman: kakopoió
lang: Icelandic
word: valda spjöllum á
lang: Icelandic
word: spilla
lang: Polish
word: naruszyć
lang: Tamil
word: அழி
roman: aḻi