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/ˈɹeɪ̯p/
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/ˈɹæɪ̯p/
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[ˈɹʷæ̝ɪ̯p]
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Noun
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.
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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 […]
Fred[erick]. Traytor, doſt dravv upon thy Prince? / Cur[tius]. Your Pardon Sir, I meant it on a Raviſher. / A foul miſguided Villain. / One that ſcarce merits the brave name of Man. / One that betrays his friend, forſakes his VVife; / And vvould commit a Rape upon my Miſtreſs.
She was thoughtful and full of consideration without being slavish and without compromising her arrogant spirit. And now he knew that she was profoundly, excitingly sensual, but that the conquest of her body, because of the central privacy in her, would each time have the sweet tang of rape.
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; […]
An experience that is pleasant for one party and unpleasant for the other, particularly when the unwilling partner's suffering is worse than necessary. Overpowerment; utter defeat.
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- Offensive
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- sometimes
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An experience that is pleasant for one party and unpleasant for the other, particularly when the unwilling partner's suffering is worse than necessary. An insult to one's senses so severe that one feels that they cannot ever be the same afterwards.
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- Offensive
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- sometimes
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The ear rape of that concert was so bad I can't even listen to their songs at work anymore.
The taking of something by force; seizure, plunder.
Usage- Archaic
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the Rape of Nanjing
Ruin'd orphans of thy rapes complain.
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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.
The abduction of a woman, especially for sexual purposes.
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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.
That which is snatched away.
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Where now are all my hopes? O, never more. / Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore.
Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
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Verb
To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
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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.
To seize by force. (Now often with sexual overtones.)
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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 […].
To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
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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.
To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
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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.
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We've raped the land for power and possession / Two thousand years and all we'll have is a planetary toxic deathbed
To subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.
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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.
To subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience. To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce.
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My experienced opponent will rape me at chess.
To subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience. To exploit an advantage, often involving money, where the other person has little choice but to submit.
Usage- Offensive
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Have you seen the prices in that store lately? I got raped for $20 just buying a sandwich.
Noun
One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.
Usage- Historical
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It seems to me very clear that the rapes of Sussex were divisions already existing there when the Normans landed.
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There is little, if any, doubt that the division of Sussex into six rapes had been carried out before the Conquest, though the term is not mentioned in any Old English record.
These four castles dominated the Sussex rapes named after them; the fifth rape, Bramber, held by William de Braose, was in existence by 1084.
Verb
To make haste; to hasten or hurry.
Usage- Intransitive
- Obsolete
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Noun
Haste; precipitancy; a precipitate course.
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Adverb
Quickly; hastily.
Usage- Obsolete
Noun
Synonym of rapeseed, Brassica napus.
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After the Industrial Revolution, it was discovered that rape also yields oil suitable for lubrication.
Noun
The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
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A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
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Fruit plucked in a bunch.
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a rape of grapes
rape of Cistus
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With regard to this obligation, the Council, on 26 October 1971[,] also arranged for certain producers to be totally or partially exempted from it, either because their wine production is very low (less than 50 hectolitres in one marketing year), or because they deliver their rapes of grapes to oenological merchants, or because they make quality wines […]
Noun
Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop
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the act of despoiling a country in warfare
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the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will
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Verb
force (someone) to have sex against their will
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The woman was raped on her way home at night
destroy and strip of its possession
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The soldiers raped the beautiful country