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sexual abuse

sexual abuse noun: any sexual activity that is undesired by one participant but forced on them nonetheless, especially when considered to be more sustained or frequent than an incident of sexual assault.

Noun

sexual abuse (usually uncountable, plural sexual abuses)

  1. (usually, crime) Any sexual activity that is undesired by one participant but forced on them nonetheless, especially when considered to be more sustained or frequent than an incident of sexual assault.
    • Statutory-rape laws concerning voluntary intercourse would probably be taken off the books, though both young boys and young girls could still be protected against any sexual abuse by older persons.1971 October 4, ‘Facing Equality for Women’, Time
    • I believe that I was the victim of sexual abuse in my relationship with T. It was always the way HE wanted it & I wasn't to do anything I wanted. So I just "submitted" to him & was glad that he would have anything to do with me.1987, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

sexual abuse meaning in Tamil and Arabic

sexual abuse in Tamil

பாலியல் பலாத்காரம்

sexual abuse in Arabic

forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another
إِسَاءَة جِنْسِيَّة

Synonyms of sexual abuse

Forms of sexual abuse

pluralsexual abuses

Words formed from sexual abuse

Questions about sexual abuse

What does sexual abuse mean?
Sexual abuse means any sexual activity that is undesired by one participant but forced on them nonetheless, especially when considered to be more sustained or frequent than an incident of sexual assault.
What is sexual abuse in Tamil?
Sexual abuse in Tamil is பாலியல் பலாத்காரம். See Sexual abuse meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sexual abuse?
Sexual abuse is a noun.
What is the plural of sexual abuse?
The plural of sexual abuse is sexual abuses.

Words near sexual abuse in the dictionary

  1. sextupole
  2. sextupoles
  3. sextych
  4. sextychs
  5. sexual
  6. sexual abuse
  7. sexual abuses
  8. sexual act
  9. sexual acts
  10. sexual anorexia
  11. sexual anorexic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sexual abuse (page history and authors); sexual abuse (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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