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date-raping

date-raping is the present participle and gerund of date-rape.

Meaning of date-rape

Verb

date-rape (third-person singular simple present date-rapes, present participle date-raping, simple past and past participle date-raped)

  1. (transitive) To rape a person while out on a date with them.
    • Ten milligrams of Rohypnol before I take her to the ER will eradicate all memory of the last month of her life, let alone this evening. They’ll simply think some overjuiced undergrad date-raped her; it happens all the time.2001 July 31, Ross LaManna, chapter 26, in Acid Test, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 232

Questions about date-raping

What is date-raping the present participle and gerund of?
Date-raping is the present participle and gerund of date-rape.

Words near date-raping in the dictionary

  1. date-nut bread
  2. date-nut breads
  3. date-rape
  4. date-raped
  5. date-rapes
  6. date-raping
  7. date-rapist
  8. date-rapists
  9. date-time
  10. dateability
  11. dateable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: date-raping (page history and authors); date-rape (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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