rape

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According to the court documents, the rape was the result of a traffic stop by the Medina police officer made last November.

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  1. noun The crime of forcing another person to submit to sex acts, especially sexual intercourse.
  2. noun The act of seizing and carrying off by force; abduction.
  3. noun Abusive or improper treatment; violation: a rape of justice.
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  • If "the friend" was also "the other girl," then the rape was the secret they shared and a threat to reveal it may have been the cause of the fight. —  Disordered Minds
  • It really bothered me that the rape was the plot equivalent of setting off a nuclear bomb, but Leary and co-creator Peter Tolan treated it as if it were the plot equivalent of a fourth of July firecracker.
  • According to the court documents, the rape was the result of a traffic stop by the Medina police officer made last November. —  The News Tribune - Tacoma - Homepage
  • If your god claims that it is honorable to murder your daughter because her rape is a blot on your family, your god is Lucifer. —  Biga's Rants - A Townhall.com user blog
  • After criticising judicial and police attitudes to rape, the writer points out that rape is a "social problem" and "Socialist Worker has no tradition of calling for more arrests or harsher sentencing to deal with social problems." —  Dissident Voice
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Etymologies (13)

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  1. Middle English, from rapen, to rape, from Old French raper, to abduct, from Latin rapere, to seize; see rep- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin rāpa, pl. of rāpum, turnip.
  3. French râpe, grape stalk, from Old French, from rasper, to scrape; see rasp.

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  1. from Middle English rapen, from Icelandic hrapa, fall, rush headlong, hurry, hasten, = Norwegian rapa, slip, fall, = Danish rappe, make haste; cf. Middle Low German reppen, hasten, hurry, G. refi. rappeln, hasten, hurry. Cf. rape, a. and n., also rape, rap, of which rape is in part a doublet.
  2. Middle English, from rape, v.
  3. from Middle English rape = Dutch rap, from Swedish Norwegian rapp = Danish rap, quick, brisk: see rape, v.
  4. Middle English, from rape, a.
  5. from Middle English rapen (= Middle Dutch rapen, raepen, Dutch rapen, gather, = Middle Low German Low German rapen, snatch, seize, = Norwegian rapa, tear off), a variant of rappen, seize: see rap. This verb has been partly confused with L. rapere, seize, whence ult. English rapid., rapine, rapacious, rapt, etc.: see rap, rapt, rapt, etc.
  6. from rape, v.
  7. from Icelandic hreppr, a district, prob. orig. ‘share’ or ‘allotment,’ from Icelandic hreppa, catch, obtain, = Anglo-Saxon hrepian, hreppan, touch: see rap.
  8. from Middle English rape, also rave, from Old French *rape, also rabe, later rave, French dial. reuve, reve, rabe, rova = Provencal Spanish raba, rape, turnip (cf. Portuguese rabão, horse-radish), = Dutch raap = Old High German raba, Middle High German rabe, rape, rappe, rape, turnip, German rapps. rape-seed, = Low German raap, rape; akin to Old High German ruoba, ruoppa, Middle High German ruobe, rüebe, German rübe, rape, turnip, etc., = Low German rove, rowe = Danish roe = Swedish rofva, turnip; cf. Old Bulgarian riepa = Servian repa = Bohemian rzhepa = Polish rzepa = Russian riepa = Lithuanian rope, rape = Albanian repe, a turnip, from Latin rapa, also rapum, a turnip, rape, = Greek ῤάπυς, ῤάφυς, turnip; cf. Greek ῤαφανίς, ῤαφάνη, a radish; ῤάφανος, a cabbage; root unknown.
  9. from Middle English rape = Middle High German rappe, rape, German rapp, a stalk of grapes, from Old French rape, French rape = Provencal raspa = Italian raspo, a stem or stalk of grapes.
  10. Prob. a variant of rap, perhaps affected by F. râper (= Spanish Portuguese rapar), rasp: see rasp.
 

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