rape (rapes plural & 3rd person present) (raping present participle) (raped past tense & past participle )
1 verb If someone is raped, they are forced to have sex, usually by violence or threats of violence.
A young woman was brutally raped in her own home... be V-ed
They'd held him down and raped him. V n
2 n-var Rape is the crime of forcing someone to have sex.
Almost ninety per cent of all rapes and violent assaults went unreported.
3 n-sing The rape of an area or of a country is the destruction or spoiling of it.
LITERARY the N of n
As a result of the rape of the forests, parts of the country are now short of water.
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date rape →
gang rape →
oilseed rape
date rape
Date rape is when a man rapes a woman after having spent the evening socially with her. n-uncount
gang rape (gang rapes 3rd person present) (gang raping present participle) (gang raped past tense & past participle ), gang-rape If a woman is gang raped, several men force her to have sex with them. verb usu passive
For five hours, the women were gang-raped. be V-ed, Also V n
Gang rape is also a noun., n-count
oilseed rape , oil-seed rape Oilseed rape is a plant with yellow flowers which is grown as a crop. Its seeds are crushed to make cooking oil.
(BRIT) n-uncount
in AM, use rape
statutory rape
In the United States, statutory rape is the crime committed by an adult when they have sex with someone who is under the age when they can legally agree to have sex. n-uncount
