raped

Verb

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

1. (transitive) 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."2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian

   Synonyms:

   ravish, violate, vitiate

2. (intransitive, transitive) 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.1978, Gore Vidal, Kalki

   Synonyms:

   loot, seize, snatch, take, apprehend, begripe, capture, fang, grasp, get

3. (transitive) 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.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
4. (transitive) To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
   • I raped your richest roadstead—I plundered Singapore!1892, Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads

   Synonyms:

   depredate, pillage, ransack, ravage, sack, spoliate

5. (offensive, slang, sometimes) To 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.2018 January 2, Samantha D. Gottlieb, “8. Mothers and Gardasil”, in Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine. Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page...
   1. (offensive, slang, sometimes) To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce.
      • My experienced opponent will rape me at chess.

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