rape

noun

1. 1

   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.

   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.

2. 2

   slangAn 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.

3. 3

   slangAn 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.

   The ear rape of that concert was so bad I can't even listen to their songs at work anymore.

4. 4

   archaicThe taking of something by force; seizure, plunder.

   the Rape of Nanjing

   Ruin'd orphans of thy rapes complain.

   [object Object]

   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.

5. 5

   archaicThe abduction of a woman, especially for sexual purposes.

   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.

6. 6

   obsoleteThat which is snatched away.

   Where now are all my hopes? O, never more. / Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore.

7. 7

   obsoleteMovement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.

verb

1. 1

   To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.

   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."

2. 2

   To seize by force. (Now often with sexual overtones.)

   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 […].

3. 3

   To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.

   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.

4. 4

   To plunder, to destroy or despoil.

   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.

   We've raped the land for power and possession / Two thousand years and all we'll have is a planetary toxic deathbed

5. 5

   slangTo subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.

   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.

6. 6

   slangTo subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience. To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce.

   My experienced opponent will rape me at chess.

7. 7

   slangTo 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.

   Have you seen the prices in that store lately? I got raped for $20 just buying a sandwich.

noun

1. 1

   historicalOne of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.

   It seems to me very clear that the rapes of Sussex were divisions already existing there when the Normans landed.

   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

1. 1

   obsoleteTo make haste; to hasten or hurry.

noun

1. 1

   obsoleteHaste; precipitancy; a precipitate course.

adverb

1. 1

   obsoleteQuickly; hastily.

noun

1. 1

   Synonym of rapeseed, Brassica napus.

   After the Industrial Revolution, it was discovered that rape also yields oil suitable for lubrication.

noun

1. 1

   The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.

2. 2

   A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.

3. 3

   obsoleteFruit plucked in a bunch.

   a rape of grapes

   rape of Cistus

   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 […]

Forms

plural

rapes

comparative

more rape

superlative

most rape

past tense

raped

past participle

raped

present participle

raping

third person singular

rapes