Definition of rape

noun (n)

• Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop (noun.plant)

  Synonym: brassica napus, colza
  

  source: wordnet30
• the act of despoiling a country in warfare (noun.act)

  Synonym: rapine
  

  source: wordnet30
• the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will (noun.act)

  Synonym: assault, ravishment, violation
  

  source: wordnet30
• Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster. (noun)

  source: webster1913
• The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery. (noun)

  source: webster1913
• One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire. (noun)

  source: webster1913
• A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds. (noun)

  source: webster1913

verb (v)

• force (someone) to have sex against their will (verb.social)

  Synonym: assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage, ravish, violate
  

  Example:
  The woman was raped on her way home at night.
  

  source: wordnet30
• destroy and strip of its possession (verb.contact)

  Synonym: despoil, plunder, spoil, violate
  

  Example:
  The soldiers raped the beautiful country.
  

  source: wordnet30
• To commit rape upon; to ravish. (verb)

  source: webster1913
• To rob; to pillage. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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