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raping

raping is the present participle and gerund of rape.

raping is the misspelling of rapping.

Meaning of rape

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
  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
  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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Meaning of rapping

Noun

rapping (countable and uncountable, plural rappings)

  1. The sound of a rap or knock.
    • During the séance, we heard mysterious rappings on the table.
  2. Musical speech accompanied by a rhythm, most commonly as part of hip-hop music.

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Noun

raping (countable and uncountable, plural rapings)

  1. Rape (sexual violation).
    • Even girls of tender years and old women were raped in large numbers throughout the city, and many cases of abnormal and sadistic behavior in connection with these rapings occurred.1997, Kelly Dawn Askin, War Crimes Against Women
    • In the 1967 attacks Witnesses reported the rapings of more than one thousand of their women, one mother being sexually violated by six different men, her thirteen-year-old daughter by three men.2003, Edmond C. Gruss, The Four Presidents of the Watch Tower Society, page 79

Forms of raping

pluralrapings

Phrases with raping

Questions about raping

What does raping mean?
Raping means rape (sexual violation).
What is raping the present participle and gerund of?
Raping is the present participle and gerund of rape.
What part of speech is raping?
Raping is a noun.
What is the plural of raping?
The plural of raping is rapings.

Words near raping in the dictionary

  1. rapine
  2. rapined
  3. rapiner
  4. rapiners
  5. rapines
  6. raping
  7. rapingly
  8. rapings
  9. rapini
  10. rapining
  11. Rapinoe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: raping (page history and authors); rape (page history and authors); rapping (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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