rape

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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, perpetrated by, or forced to penetrate 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 yelling monsters […]”

   “Last April the media world exploded in indignation at the rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park.”

   “Castor and Pollux are one set of twins birthed by Leda after her rape by Zeus in swan form; […]”

   “For quotations using this term, see Citations:rape.”

2. (countable, offensive, slang, sometimes, uncountable)An experience that is pleasant for one party and unpleasant for the other, particularly when the unwilling partner's suffering is worse than necessary.
3. (countable, offensive, slang, sometimes, uncountable)An experience that is pleasant for one party and unpleasant for the other, particularly when the unwilling partner's suffering is worse than necessary.

   “The ear rape of that concert was so bad I can't even listen to their songs at work anymore.”

4. (archaic, countable, uncountable)The taking of something by force; seizure, plunder.

   “the Rape of Nanjing”

   “Ruin'd orphans of thy rapes complain.”

   “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.”

   “She worked under the great tapestry with its glowing but subdued tones—huntsmen with lofted horns had been running down a female stag. After the rape, leaving the grooms to bring the trophy home, they galloped away into the soft brumous Italian skyline; […]”

5. (archaic, countable, uncountable)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?”

   “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 similar question mark over the distinction between rape and marriage.”

6. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)That which is snatched away.

   “Where now are all my hopes? O, never more. / Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore.”

7. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
8. (historical)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.”

   “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.”

   “These four castles dominated the Sussex rapes named after them; the fifth rape, Bramber, held by William de Braose, was in existence by 1084.”

9. (obsolete)Haste; precipitancy; a precipitate course.
10. Synonym of rapeseed, Brassica napus.

    “After the Industrial Revolution, it was discovered that rape also yields oil suitable for lubrication.”

11. (countable, uncountable)The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
12. (countable, uncountable)A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
13. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Fruit plucked in a bunch.

    “a rape of grapes”

    “rape of Cistus”

    “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 hectolitres in one marketing year), or because they deliver their rapes of grapes to oenological merchants, or because they make quality wines […]”

verb

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."”

   “"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."”

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.”

   “It is six years since my just action to reclaim the armaments raped from here by the Lairds of Dalgetty and Tolly […].”

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.”

   “A Princess rap’d transcends a Navy storm'd.”

4. (transitive)To plunder, to destroy or despoil.

   “I raped your richest roadstead—I plundered Singapore!”

   “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.”

   “We've raped the land for power and possession / Two thousand years and all we'll have is a planetary toxic deathbed”

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.”

6. (offensive, slang, sometimes)To subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.

   “My experienced opponent will rape me at chess.”

7. (offensive, slang, sometimes)To subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.

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

8. (intransitive, obsolete, reflexive)To make haste; to hasten or hurry.

adv

1. (obsolete)Quickly; hastily.

name

1. A surname.