rape1 verbrape2 noun
raperape1 /reɪp/ ●●○ verb [transitive] 
to force someone to have sex, especially by using violence: 
She had been raped and stabbed.rape1 verbrape2 noun
raperape2 ●●○ noun WORD ORIGINrape2
Origin:
1,3 1400-1500 ➔ RAPE12 1300-1400 Latin rapaEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Rape victims receive special counselling and are treated very sensitively.
- a rape victim
- A woman's sexual history should not be introduced in a rape trial.
- It was not the first time he had been accused of rape.
- the rape of the American West
- Wilson has been charged with attempted rape.
- Also patron of nurses and rape victims.
- Cook, who has previous convictions for robbery, pleaded guilty to attempted rape and to unlawful wounding.
- From the latter, he derived the proposition that intent is the mens rea of rape and to this he added recklessness.
- In the United States, there were more than 150, 000 reported rapes in 1993.
- Murders, theft, rape, calumnies, graft - our daily bread.
- Only one in 10 rape victims reports the crime to authorities, he noted.
- The Government is considering new laws to counter date rape and to improve the way rape cases are handled.
- Violent crimes include murder, rape, robbery and assault.
THESAURUSviolent crimes
noun [countable, uncountable] the crime of physically attacking someone: · He was arrested for an assault on a policeman.
noun [countable, uncountable] the crime of attacking and robbing someone in a public place: · Muggings usually happen at night.
noun [countable, uncountable] the crime of deliberately killing someone: · He is accused of the murder of five women.
noun [countable, uncountable] especially American English law murder: · Homicide rates are rising fastest amongst teenagers.
noun [countable, uncountable] the crime of forcing someone to have sex: · In most cases of rape, the victim knows her attacker.
Longman Language Activatorto attack or harm someone in a sexual way to force someone to have sex when they do not want to: · He was accused of raping his ex-girlfriend.· The woman was raped and then murdered by her kidnapper.
the crime of forcing someone to have sex when they do not want to: · It was not the first time he had been accused of rape.· Rape victims receive special counselling and are treated very sensitively.· A woman's sexual history should not be introduced in a rape trial.
to harm a child by forcing them to have sex or touching them in a sexual way, especially over a long period of time: · He had been sexually abusing his daughter since she was eleven years old.
to harm or upset someone by touching them in a sexual way: · Her father had molested her and her sisters when they were children.
when someone, especially someone you work with, regularly makes sexual remarks, looks at you in a sexual way, or tries to touch you in a sexual way that you do not want. Sexual harassment can be punished by law: · Victims of sexual harassment are often afraid to report it in case they lose their jobs.· She successfully prosecuted her boss for sexual harassment.
WORD SETSabet, verbaccusation, nounaccuse, verbaffray, nounarson, nounassault, nounassault and battery, nounbackhander, nounbattery, nounbigamy, nounblack market, nounblack marketeer, nounbreak-in, nounbreaking and entering, nouncaper, nouncapital, adjectivecarjacking, nouncat burglar, nouncontract, nouncosh, nouncounterfeit, adjectivecounterfeit, verbcover, nouncrack, verbcriminal, adjectivecriminal, nouncriminal law, nouncriminal record, nouncriminology, nouncrook, nounculpable, adjectiveculprit, noundefamation, noundefraud, verbdelinquency, noundelinquent, adjectivedelinquent, noundesperado, noundisorderly, adjectivedrug baron, noundrug runner, nounDUI, nounembezzle, verbexpropriate, verbextort, verbeyewitness, nounfelon, nounfelony, nounfence, nounfiddle, nounfiddle, verbfiddler, nounfilch, verbfinger, verbfire-raising, nounfirst offender, nounflash, verbflasher, nounforge, verbforger, nounforgery, nounfoul play, nounframe, verbframe-up, nounfratricide, nounfraud, nounfreebooter, noungang, noungang-bang, noungang rape, noungangster, nounGBH, noungenocide, noungetaway, noungodfather, noungrand larceny, noungrass, noungrievous bodily harm, nounheist, nounhijack, verbhijack, nounhijacking, nounhit, nounhit-and-run, adjectivehit man, nounincriminate, verbindecent assault, nounindecent exposure, nouninfanticide, nounjob, nounjoyriding, nounjuvenile delinquent, nounkidnap, verblarceny, nounlibel, nounlibel, verblibellous, adjectivelow life, nounmafioso, nounmalpractice, nounmanslaughter, nounmassacre, nounmassacre, verbmatricide, nounmisappropriate, verbmisconduct, nounmisdeed, nounmisdemeanour, nounmobster, nounmoll, nounmug, verbmugshot, nounmurder, nounmurder, verbmurderer, nounmurderess, nounmuscleman, nounnark, nounnefarious, adjectiveneighbourhood watch, nounnick, verbno-go area, nounoffence, nounoffend, verboffender, nounold lag, nounorganized crime, nounoutlaw, nounparricide, nounpatricide, nounpetty larceny, nounPhotofit, nounpiracy, nounplant, verbpoach, verbpoacher, nounpossession, nounprivateer, nounprotection, nounprowl, verbprowler, nounpublic nuisance, nounpull, verbpunk, nounpurloin, verbraid, nounram-raiding, nounrape, verbrape, nounrapist, nounravish, verbreceiver, nounreceiving, nounrecidivist, nounregicide, nounring, nounringleader, nounriotous, adjectiverob, verbrobber, nounrobbery, nounroll, verbrustler, nounscheme, nounscheme, verbshady, adjectiveshoplift, verbshoplifting, nounslander, nounsmuggle, verbsnout, nounspeeding, nounstabbing, nounstalking, nounstatutory offence, nounstatutory rape, nounsteal, verbstoolpigeon, nounsupergrass, nounsuspect, nounswag, nountheft, nounthief, nounthievish, adjectivetorch, verbtraffic, nountrafficker, nountriad, noununder-the-counter, adjectiveunderworld, nounundesirable, nounvagrancy, nounvandal, nounvandalism, nounvandalize, verbvice, nounvigilante, nounvillainy, nounviolate, verbviolation, nounwanted, adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a rape victim the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl He was convicted of attempted rape.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rape victim the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl He was convicted of attempted rape.· The couple were accused of committing murder.
(=one who commits very unpleasant sex attacks)
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· While it could be very difficult to prove that you were raped before your marriage, proving marital rape may be possible.· Two centuries after Hale's pronouncement, Pollock B. unequivocally expressed his support for the marital rape exemption in similar terms.· It is unlikely that their enthusiasm for reporting marital rape would be much greater.· Indeed, Wills J. appeared to query the very existence of a marital rape exemption.· The Committee was not without its own misgivings about non-cohabitation as a prerequisite for prosecution for marital rape.· In the thirteenth century context, liability for marital rape would clearly have been quite inconceivable.· Separation is not always the factor which is chosen to delimit the marital rape exemption.· Wives prepared to report marital rape to the police may well have husbands who fall into this category.
NOUN· Many questions have been raised about acquaintance rape since the surge of reported cases has been noted across the country.
· Specifically the Heilbron Report did not recommend similar anonymity for defendants in rape cases.· A few cases dominate this reporting, while just over one-half of the rape cases mentioned appeared only in one sample newspaper.· Police, faced with their third major serial rape case in a decade, frankly are baffled.· The Government is considering new laws to counter date rape and to improve the way rape cases are handled.· Even the rape case against him began falling apart when his alleged victim failed to appear in court.· In the summer of 1974 there had been several questions regarding the possibility of anonymity in rape cases.· It's the same with these terrible rape cases.
· The rape charge was all a setup, the Brigade huffed.· He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment on each of the rape charges and four years for each of the indecent assaults.· A week later, Hagans made another court appearance on the rape charge.· Three years ago Anna McGurk was murdered by a man who'd been bailed on a rape charge.· A survey in the 1970s showed that almost one-third of rape charges resulted in conviction of attempted rape.· She will now have to repeat her allegations when the 52-year-old Surrey man is re-tried on two rape charges.
· The Government is considering new laws to counter date rape and to improve the way rape cases are handled.· All freshmen who attend optional orientation sessions receive information on date rape.· She talks about relationships and the dangers of date rape.· Merrill points out that most often rape on college campuses is date rape, but that date rape is rape.· The research on date rape has helped shape prevention programs, but with few results.
· It follows Operation Orchid, a police investigation into missing boys after a gang rape murder in London.· Often, they said, a captive woman would try to attach herself to one leader to avoid repeated gang rape.
· Traditional rape laws, therefore, also involve some sort of gradation and may well encourage plea-bargaining.· It is also worth reiterating that traditional rape laws frequently give rise to light sentences for lesser offences.
· This one case took 13 percent of the total coverage of rape trials.· His evidence will be used in a homosexual rape trial.
· Lawyers do not believe that women jurors are necessarily more likely than men to believe the evidence of alleged rape victims.· Also patron of nurses and rape victims.· The emphasis of the research mainly focused on the press reporting of the rape victim.· Some rape victims might be lucky enough to encounter an emergency room doctor who will prescribe the drugs.· Genuine rape victims should always be encouraged to come forward, so anonymity is important.· They serenaded the rape victim inside, cheering a brother on as if it were a football game.· After the furore over the schoolgirl rape victim, he risks having a controversial but respectable viewpoint mistaken for insensitivity.· She also works with other rape victims, which is helping to lay her own demons to rest.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1[countable, uncountable] the crime of forcing someone to have sex, especially by using violence: - A matter of murder-more than one murder, highway robbery and probably the rape of a young girl too.
- Arrest over teenage rape A man has been arrested in connection with the rape of a teenager in Essex.
- He gave a ten-year prison sentence for this as opposed to two years for one of the rapes of women.
- Many people I know deplore the digging of these cant quarries and call them ugly eyesores and the rape of the country.
- The Romans celebrated the rape of the Sabine Women by Romulus and his men.
- This, though less hazardous than the rape of Persephone, was perilous enough to satisfy the most ambitious.
- Williams was keenly aware of what was happening with the rapes of black women and lynchings of black men.
- All I care about is solving this murder, I mean this attempted murder.
- He was acquitted of rape, attempted murder, administering poison with intent and kidnapping.
- In summary, therefore, most special aftercare services have had no effect on repetition rates after attempted suicide.
- Redmond denied attempted murder but admitted wounding with intent.
- Several forces have also seen very sharp rises in attempted murders.
- The charges include the murder of Becky and the attempted murder of Katie in April 1991.
- The suspects were held Wednesday on suspicion of attempted murder, attempted burglary and conspiracy.
- We have cured hundreds of people from Chicago, Ill., from gunshot wounds inflicted in attempted murders and robberies.
Police are investigating a series of violent rapes in the town. He was arrested and charged with rape. He always denied that he was guilty of rape. a rape victim the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl He was convicted of attempted rape.► see thesaurus at crime2[uncountable] (also oilseed rape) a European plant with yellow flowers, grown as animal food and for its oil SYN canola American English3 the rape of something the unnecessary destruction of something, especially the environment: companies which profit from the rape of the Earth