Definitions
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- verb To
perpetrate agang rape .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb rape (someone) successively with several attackers
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Examples
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One gang-rape victim told me she was able to point out one of her attackers to police.
Neela Ghoshal: Four Years After Kenya's Post-Election Violence, Impunity Reigns Neela Ghoshal 2011
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Reports came filtering in of slave sweeps: The soldados apparently believed that any woman they found—no matter how she tried to fool them by acting otherwise—would be delighted to have them throw her to the ground, pry her legs apart, and gang-rape her.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Ever since Judge Patrick Parrish ruled that Khadr's statements made to interrogators after he was threatened with gang-rape, coerced and possibly tortured were admissible, his defense was sure to be challenging.
Daphne Eviatar: Gitmo Guilty Plea Is a Sad Day for U.S. Rule of Law Daphne Eviatar 2010
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A few additions (none of which are as bad as poo-eating): The pull-over scene from “Bad Lieutenant,” the dead baby in the crib from “Trainspotting,” the realization of what exactly Dae-su Oh has done in “Oldboy,” the very, very long gang-rape scene from “I Spit on Your Grave,” the rape scene that just about brings “Showgirls” to a dead stand still and Keanu Reeves doing anything in “Dracula.”
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Ever since Judge Patrick Parrish ruled that Khadr's statements made to interrogators after he was threatened with gang-rape, coerced and possibly tortured were admissible, his defense was sure to be challenging.
Daphne Eviatar: Gitmo Guilty Plea Is a Sad Day for U.S. Rule of Law Daphne Eviatar 2010
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Reports came filtering in of slave sweeps: The soldados apparently believed that any woman they found—no matter how she tried to fool them by acting otherwise—would be delighted to have them throw her to the ground, pry her legs apart, and gang-rape her.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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A culture that refuses to fully deplore child-rape, a culture in which people make apologies for ‘misunderstood’ rapists, a culture in which teenage boys think that it is entertaining to participate in gang-rape: this is rape-culture, people, and it is sickening.
Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Monsters | Her Bad Mother 2009
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Some may be deserters from Somali forces across the border; others are Kenyan bandits who rob and gang-rape the stream of refugees fleeing the famine in Somalia.
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An embryo cannot suffer the indignity of gang-rape.
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Ever since Judge Patrick Parrish ruled that Khadr's statements made to interrogators after he was threatened with gang-rape, coerced and possibly tortured were admissible, his defense was sure to be challenging.
Daphne Eviatar: Gitmo Guilty Plea Is a Sad Day for U.S. Rule of Law Daphne Eviatar 2010
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