unrape
unrape verb: hypothetically, to undo the act of rape; to cause (a person) not to have been raped.
Verb
unrape (third-person singular simple present unrapes, present participle unraping, simple past and past participle unraped)
- Hypothetically, to undo the act of rape; to cause (a person) not to have been raped.
- I could not unoppress all those women; I could not resurrect all the murdered witches; I could not unrape all the little girls.2008, William Marten, A Killer of Serial Women: A True Story, page 74
- In fact, experience has demonstrated that “abortion does not unrape a woman,” and it “promises only to compound the trauma of rape with another experience of violence.”2011, Nic Samojluk, From Pro-life to Pro-choice
Examples of unrape in a sentence
- To illustrate with a crude parallel, the idea is the following: that one cannot unmurder the murdered and that one cannot unrape the raped.2013, Avram Hiller, Ramona Ilea, Leonard Kahn, Consequentialism and Environmental Ethics:
- Art should unrape the raped and rape the unraped.2026 May 1, @ibucunny, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 07 May 2026:
Forms of unrape
| third-person singular present | unrapes |
|---|---|
| present participle | unraping |
| past participle | unraped |
| past | unraped |
Origin of unrape
From un- + rape.
Questions about unrape
- What does unrape mean?
- Unrape means hypothetically, to undo the act of rape; to cause (a person) not to have been raped.
- How do you use unrape in a sentence?
- To illustrate with a crude parallel, the idea is the following: that one cannot unmurder the murdered and that one cannot unrape the raped.
- What part of speech is unrape?
- Unrape is a verb.
- What is the past tense of unrape?
- The past tense of unrape is unraped.
Words near unrape in the dictionary
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