rape

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The crime of forcing another person to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse.
2. n. The act of seizing and carrying off by force; abduction.
3. n. Abusive or improper treatment; violation: a rape of justice.
4. v. To force (another person) to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse; commit rape on.
5. v. To seize and carry off by force.
6. v. To plunder or pillage.
7. n. A European plant (Brassica napus) of the mustard family, cultivated as fodder and for its seed that yields a valuable oil. Also called colza, oil-seed rape.
8. n. The refuse of grapes left after the extraction of the juice in winemaking.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To make haste; hasten; hurry: often used reflexively.
2. n. Haste; precipitancy; a precipitate course.
3. Quick; hasty.
4. Quickly; hastily.
5. To seize and carry off; snatch up; seize; steal.
6. To commit the crime of rape.
7. To carry off violently; hence, figuratively, to enrapture; ravish.
8. To commit rape upon; ravish.
9. n. The act of snatching by force; a seizing and carrying away by force or violence, whether of persons or things; violent seizure and carrying away: as, the rape of Proserpine; the rape of the Sabine women; Pope's “Rape of the Lock.”
10. n. In law, the violation or carnal knowledge of a woman forcibly and against her will. Forcibly is usually understood not necessarily to mean violence, but to include negative consent. Statutes in various jurisdictions modify the definition, some by extending it to include carnal knowledge of a girl under 10 either with or without her consent. Rape is regarded as one of the worst felonies. The penalty for it was formerly death, as it is still in some jurisdictions, but is now generally imprisonment for life or for a long term of years. It is now often called criminal assault.
11. n. Something taken or seized and carried away; a captured person or thing.
12. n. A division of the county of Sussex, in England, intermediate between a hundred and the shire. The county is divided into six rapes.
13. n. A turnip.
14. n. The colza, cole-seed, or rape-seed, a cruciferous plant including the Brassica campestris and B. Napus of Linnæus, the latter form now considered to be a variety, together with the common turnip, of B. campestris, which occurs in a wild state as a weed throughout Europe and Asiatic Russia. Of the two forms named, the former, sometimes called summer rape, has rough leaves, and the latter, called winter rape, smooth leaves. Rape is extensively grown in Europe and in India for its oleaginous seeds, the source of rape-oil. It is also sown for its leaves, which are used as food for sheep, and are produced in gardens for use as a salad.
15. n. The stem or stalk of grapes.
16. n. plural The stalks and skins of grapes from which the must has been expressed.
17. n. Loose or refuse grapes used in wine-making.
18. n. A filter used in a vinegar-manufactory to separate the mucilaginous matter from the vinegar. It derives its name from being charged with rapes.
19. To scratch; abrade; scarify.
20. n. An obsolete or dialectal form of rope.

Wiktionary

1. n. The act of forcing sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon another person, without their consent and/or against their will.
2. n. rapeseed, Brassica napus
3. n. The stalks and husks of grapes.
4. n. A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes used for clarifying wine.
5. n. Fruit plucked in a bunch.
6. n. One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, UK.
7. v. To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon another person, without their consent.
8. v. To abuse an object in an extreme manner.
9. v. To dominate in a contest.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.
2. n. The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
3. n. A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.
4. n. The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.
5. n. Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
6. n. That which is snatched away.
7. n. Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
8. n. An action causing results harmful to a person or thing; as, the rape of the land by mining companies.
9. v. To commit rape upon; to ravish.
10. v. To perform an action causing results harmful or very unpleasant to a person or thing; Corresponds to 2nd rape, n. 5.
11. v. To rob; to pillage.
12. n. One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.
13. n. 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.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will
2. v. destroy and strip of its possession
3. n. Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop
4. n. the act of despoiling a country in warfare
5. v. force (someone) to have sex against their will