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to gang-rape

22 9.9
To force someone to have sex with several people when they do not want to
  • verb
  • /ɡæŋ-reɪp/
  • Offensive
translation icon : violar en grupo
  • It seems he was gang raped in the cell last night.
  • victim of a gang-rape
  • gang-raped young woman

And after doing their satanic mass, they would then gang rape her.

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Examples

  • They gang raped my sister.

  • The most beautiful woman in the city, betrothed to the son of the mayor, was gang-raped in public.

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  • But when I started to refuse, they gang raped me and they beat me.

  • I mean, we're talking to a survivor of gang rape and abuse over a long period of time.

  • Remember that case with the 10-year-old girl who was gang-raped by a group?

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  • These NGOs have documented incidents of gang rape of young girls and grandmothers alike.

  • For nearly 10 hours, Reyes says, he was gang-raped while the guards ignored his cries for help.

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  • Your Honor, on July 4th, Marteen McGuire was viciously attacked, in fact, she was gang-raped in the presence of her daughter, who was also assaulted.

  • Lubna, a 12-year-old Christian girl, was kidnapped, gang-raped, and murdered by a group of Muslims (Oct 2010).

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  • The police arrested several suspects involved in the gang-rape of a teenager in the park.

Synonyms

to rape
vsto gang-rape
  • Offensive
690 5.3

To force someone to have sex against their will

is carried out by several offenders acting together rather than a single attacker
to assault
vsto gang-rape
  • Offensive
110 8.1

To force someone to have sex against their will

is performed by multiple offenders together rather than any single sexual attack

How Violent

to gang-rape
  • Offensive
22 9.9
to rape
  • Offensive
690 5.3
sexual assault
  • NSFW
119 5.7
to molest
  • Offensive
150 8.7

Surface Forms

gang-rape infinitive
gang-raped past
gang-raped past participle
gang-raping present participle
gang-rapes third person singular

Morphology

gang-rape = gang + rape (transparent) = gang + rape

The meaning is a direct combination of 'gang' (a group) + 'rape' (sexual assault), so learners who know both parts can infer the compound meaning.

Etymology

Gang-rape is made of gang meaning 'a group' and rape, which comes from the old Latin verb rapere meaning 'to seize' or 'take by force'. So gang-rape means a violent sexual assault carried out by a group of people.