rape

Adverb

1. Quickly; hastily.

Noun Entry 2

1. The act of forcing sex upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally coitus forced by a man on a woman, but now generally any sex act forced by any person upon another person, regardless of gender; by extension, any non-consensual sex act forced on or perpetrated by any being.
   • I fled; but he pursued (though more, it seems, Inflamed with lust than rage), and, swifter far, Me overtook, his mother, all dismayed, And, in embraces forcible and foul Engendering with me, of that rape begot These...
   • Last April the media world exploded in indignation at the rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park. - 1990 January 22, ‘Turning Victims into Saints’, Time:
   • Castor and Pollux are one set of twins birthed by Leda after her rape by Zeus in swan form; […] - 2013, William Butler Yeats, The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version, Simon and...
2. An experience that is pleasant for one party and unpleasant for the other, particularly when the unwilling partner's suffering is worse than necessary.

   1. Overpowerment; utter defeat.

   2. An insult to one's senses so severe that one feels that they cannot ever be the same afterwards.

      • The ear rape of that concert was so bad I can't even listen to their songs at work anymore.
3. The taking of something by force; seizure, plunder.
   • the Rape of Nanjing
   • Ruin'd orphans of thy rapes complain. - 1638, George Sandys, chapter XXII, in A Paraphrase upon Job:
   • Ellery Queen deals entirely in murders; you are not fobbed off, as you are with Mr. Leslie Charteris's Saint, with pablum about the rape of the dowager's emeralds, or the theft of the blueprint of the newest submarine....
4. The abduction of a woman, especially for sexual purposes.
   • Sat. Traytor, if Rome haue law, or we haue power, Thou and thy Faction shall repent this Rape. Bass. Rape call you it my Lord, to cease my owne, My true betrothed Loue, and now my wife? - c. 1588–1593 (date written),...
   • The tale of the rape of Lucretia, for example, is hardly tellable - as many Roman writers themselves discovered - without raising the question of where seduction ends and rape begins; the rape of the Sabines puts a...
5. That which is snatched away.
   • Where now are all my hopes? O, never more. / Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore. - 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes...
6. Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.

Noun Entry 3

1. The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
2. A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
3. Fruit plucked in a bunch.
   • a rape of grapes
   • rape of Cistus - 1682, John Ray, Methodus Plantarum Nova:
   • With regard to this obligation, the Council, on 26 October 1971[,] also arranged for certain producers to be totally or partially exempted from it, either because their wine production is very low (less than 50...

Noun historical

1. One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.
   • It seems to me very clear that the rapes of Sussex were divisions already existing there when the Normans landed. - 1888 March 20, Henry H. Howorth, in a letter to The Archaeological Review, volume 1 (March–August...
   • There is little, if any, doubt that the division of Sussex into six rapes had been carried out before the Conquest, though the term is not mentioned in any Old English record. - 1971, Frank Merry Stenton, Anglo-Saxon...
   • These four castles dominated the Sussex rapes named after them; the fifth rape, Bramber, held by William de Braose, was in existence by 1084. - 1997, Ann Williams, The English and the Norman Conquest, page 18:

Noun obsolete

1. Haste; precipitancy; a precipitate course.

Noun Entry 6

1. Synonym of rapeseed, Brassica napus.
   • After the Industrial Revolution, it was discovered that rape also yields oil suitable for lubrication. - 2001, Bill Lambrecht, Dinner at the New Gene Café, page 231:

   Synonyms: rapeseed Brassica napus

Verb Entry 7

1. 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...
   • "They taught us nothing but how to cheat, curse and abuse. I never killed in cold blood even if I was known as one of the most fearless fighters. Yes, I abducted several children, I robbed and beat, but I never raped."...
   • […] in the country of my birth […] my attack now "counts," and my rapist could be prosecuted […] In the place in which I live today, he could not. The statute in my current state of residence reserves that term for the...

   Synonyms: ravish violate vitiate

2. 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:
   • It is six years since my just action to reclaim the armaments raped from here by the Lairds of Dalgetty and Tolly […]. - 1983, Alasdair Gray, “Logopandocy”, in Every Short Story 1951-2012, Canongate, published 2012,...

   Synonyms: loot seize snatch take apprehend begripe capture fang grasp get gripe lay hold of rape take hold steal abduct abstract appropriate bag bandit bash and grab bone boost burgle

3. 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...
   • A Princess rap’d transcends a Navy storm'd. - 1718, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, The Iliad:
4. To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
   • I raped your richest roadstead—I plundered Singapore! - 1892, Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads:
   • They come out here in their perky little foreign cars, fifty pounds of American copper in each one, and tell us we're earth-raping monsters. - 1996, Stephen King, Desperation:
   • We've raped the land for power and possession / Two thousand years and all we'll have is a planetary toxic deathbed - 2018, “Armageddon Blues”, performed by Power Trip:

   Synonyms: depredate pillage ransack ravage sack spoliate

5. 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...

   1. To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce.

      • My experienced opponent will rape me at chess.

      Synonyms: beat obliterate own thrash bring down convince chew up eat someone for breakfast eat someone's lunch flog humble kick ass malavogue murdelize outfox outguess outrun outsmart outwit overcome overpower overwin pulverise pwn

   2. To exploit an advantage, often involving money, where the other person has little choice but to submit.

      • Have you seen the prices in that store lately? I got raped for $20 just buying a sandwich.

Verb intransitive, obsolete

1. To make haste; to hasten or hurry.

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