to rape
20
9.6
- verb
- /reɪp/
- Offensive
- It's not simply about China we can't continue to allow China to rape our country.
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Watch on YouTubeSo do you think God wants you to, like, rape and pillage the earth, or would he wants you to keep it in good shape?
- So do you think God wants you to, like, rape and pillage the earth, or would he wants you to keep it in good shape?
- Now, in recent years, they've also begun, you know, raping and pillaging and doing all sorts of things that are not supposed to be in there.
Examples
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Some archaeologists accuse the farmers of raping, looting, and plundering their land (Brent 1994, S. McIntosh 1994).
Academic text (1995) -
I will not allow my company to be raped by a man like you.
Fiction book (1990) -
So do you think God wants you to, like, rape and pillage the earth, or would he wants you to keep it in good shape?
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And as a Westerner, you know, I am seeing my home ground raped, raised, whatever metaphor you want to use.
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Or illegal coal mines are raping this beautiful country?
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The mining company is raping the landscape, leaving behind a scarred and desolate area.
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Excessive logging is raping the forest, destroying the habitat for countless species.
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We must protect our natural resources from corporations that are raping the environment for profit.
Synonyms
31
6.0
To steal things by force, often during war or disorder
3
6.1
Damage a place by force and take or destroy its things
2
9.3
Steal valuable things and damage a place or person, often by force
1
7.2
Robbed and badly damaged during war or fighting
1
7.6
To attack a place and take valuable things, often destroying it
1
9.9
To steal something from someone often by force
Idioms
Compounds
- Offensive
35
7.9
A sexual act that someone forces on a person they know, often after a date
- Offensive
26
8.5
Sex with a person younger than the age the law allows, even if both agree
- Offensive
1
9.9
A claim that sex was forced after a person first agreed but later regretted it
- Slur
1
9.9
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
How Devastating
Surface Forms
Etymology
To rape in a figurative sense comes from the same Latin rapere, 'to seize', and is used to show violent taking or destruction, so when writers say land was 'raped' they mean it was violently taken or ruined.