to rape
690
5.3
- verb
- /reɪp/
- Offensive
:
violar
- Women should not be being raped by men in their prisons.
- rape women
- rape a girl
- rape a man
His wife had been raped by her owner.
- His wife had been raped by her owner.
- And then he would rape them and videotape it.
- You took me in and I raped your daughter.
- The one where the demon rapes the guy in the hotel.
- No, sorry, sexually assaulting or raping her in the past.
- A wealthy white man has been accused of raping a young black woman.
- He and her parents, they raped her and beat her and burned her.
- Aha, the fact that the IDF soldiers don't rape any of the Palestinian women.
- He's going to go out there and rape and murder and rob all by himself.
- I once I accidentally told my dad I was raped by a stranger.
Examples
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In Thompson's Sex, Lies and Fairytales, Hazel is almost raped by her lover's brother.
Academic text (2011) -
He tried to rape me.
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- He was trying to rape her!
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And then the guy goes and tries to rape her sister and has her phone.
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You took me in and I raped your daughter.
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Nine years ago, my sister was raped and murdered.
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He still killed the man who raped my daughter.
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At one point, Esperanza is raped as she accompanies her friend Sally to a carnival.
Academic text (1996) -
He hits her, he pushes her, he rapes her repeatedly.
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He tried to rape me in the parking lot last night.
Synonyms
110
8.1
To force someone to have sex against their will
54
8.3
Force someone to have sex when they do not want to
5
9.9
To force someone to have sex against their will
Idioms
Compounds
- Offensive
25
8.5
Sex with a person younger than the age the law allows, even if both agree
- Offensive
18
7.9
A sexual act that someone forces on a person they know, often after a date
- Slur
An offensive phrase used to say one person is unfairly treated in a divorce, often about money or child custody
- Offensive
An unwanted sexual touching of a person at an event entrance during a security check
- Offensive
A claim that sex was forced after a person first agreed but later regretted it
How Violent
- Offensive
22
9.9
- Offensive
690
5.3
- NSFW
119
5.7
- Offensive
150
8.7
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb rape comes from Latin rapere, 'to seize' or 'take by force', so to rape someone historically meant to 'take' them by force; this is why the modern verb means forcing sexual intercourse against someone's will.