to molest
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8.7
- verb
- /məˈlɛst/
- Offensive
:
abusar sexualmente (de)
- When I was 12, my dad molested me.
- sexually molest
- molest children
- molest students
He said the whole childhood my father molested me, I want him dead.
- He said the whole childhood my father molested me, I want him dead.
- But also it turned out had been sexually molested when he was a little boy.
- And a lot of, you know, uncles molesting kids and stuff like that.
- I was molested at five years old by a total stranger.
- I think that they were probably involved in molesting young girls.
- I myself, I haven't been prostituted, but I have been molested by my own family member.
- People have been molesting children since we crawled out of caves.
- So Peter was saying he was raped, he was sexually molested, groomed throughout this whole process.
- And I'm surmising that they both, both of them got busted molesting kids in Southeast Asia.
- And, yeah, like, on top of me molesting me.
- She knows, no, I'm not going to say names but had daughters molested in drug houses.
- But when young boys are being molested, no one cares.
- She has not said that you have sexually molested her.
- And her stepdad also was molesting her.
- I did, but I mean like they're legitimately like rapist and people who molest children that get lesser bail than that.
- These are fathers, grandfathers, uncles, family, friends and so on who were charged, tried, convicted and jailed for molesting children.
- Now, mind you, and for anyone who hasn't actually seen this, this woman was, she was molested by her father, who was a cop.
Examples
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I was molested.
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Also, he sexually molests his male victims.
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So she moved in with him only to find out that he started to molest her three daughters.
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I think that they were probably involved in molesting young girls.
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During that time, the teacher molested a large number of male students.
Academic text (1992) -
I was molested at five years old by a total stranger.
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And you were molested by a priest.
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I'm sure that in the future you will not be molested again.
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I will never regret having prosecuted people who molested children, people who raped women, people who murdered other individuals.
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He was too afraid to speak out after being molested by someone he trusted.
Synonyms
110
8.1
To force someone to have sex against their will
35
7.4
To touch someone in a sexual way without their permission
Antonyms
How Serious
Surface Forms
Etymology
Molest comes from the Latin word molestus, meaning 'troublesome' or 'annoying'. Later, this idea of making someone very uncomfortable was used for a serious kind of harm with unwanted sexual touching, so to molest can mean to harass someone sexually.