rape
see also: Rape
Pronunciation
Rape
Proper noun
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see also: Rape
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɹeɪp/
rape
- (now, rare) The taking of something by force; seizure, plunder. [from early 14th c.]
- 1638 George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon Job (Chapter XXII)
- Ruin'd orphans of thy rapes complain.
- 1712, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
- 1977, JRR Tolkien, The Silmarillion:
- Few of the Teleri were willing to go forth to war, for they remembered the slaying at the Swanhaven, and the rape of their ships.
- 1638 George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon Job (Chapter XXII)
- (now, archaic) The abduction of a woman, especially for sexual purposes. [from 15th c.]
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, First Folio 1623, I.1:
- 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?
- 2000, Mary Beard, The Guardian, 8 Sep 2000:
- 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.
- c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, First Folio 1623, I.1:
- The act of forcing sexual intercourse upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally coitus forced by a man on a woman, but now any sex act forced by any person upon another person. [from 15th c.]
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, II:
- 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 […]
- 1990, ‘Turning Victims into Saints’, Time, 22 Jan 1990:
- Last April the media world exploded in indignation at the rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, II:
- (obsolete) That which is snatched away.
- Where now are all my hopes? O, never more. / Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore.
- (obsolete) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
- (slang) Overpowerment; utter defeat.
- French: viol
- German: Vergewaltigung, Schändung
- Italian: stupro
- Portuguese: estupro
- Russian: изнаси́лование
- Spanish: violación, estupro
rape (rapes, present participle raping; past and past participle raped)
- (transitive, intransitive) To seize by force. (Now often with overtones of later senses.) [from late 14th c.]
- 1978, Gore Vidal, Kalki:
- Dr Ashok's eyes had a tendency to pop whenever he wanted to rape your attention.
- 1983, Alasdair Gray, ‘Logopandocy’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012), p. 136:
- It is six years since my just action to reclaim the armaments raped from here by the Lairds of Dalgetty and Tolly […] .
- 1978, Gore Vidal, Kalki:
- (transitive) To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct. [from 15th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.10:
- Paridell rapeth Hellenore: / Malbecco her pursewes: / Findes emongst Satyres, whence with him / To turne she doth refuse.
- 1718, Alexander Pope, translating Homer, The Iliad:
- A Princess rap’d transcends a Navy storm'd.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.10:
- (chiefly, transitive) To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent. [from 16th c.]
- The Communist Specter is not satisfied with beating, raping, sodomizing and killing a man's flesh body alone.
- 2007, Kunda: The Story of a Child Soldier ISBN 9966082670, page 51:
- "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."
- (transitive) To plunder, to destroy or despoil. [from 17th c.]
- 1892, Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads:
- I raped your richest roadstead—I plundered Singapore!
- 1892, Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads:
- (US slang, chiefly, Internet) To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce. [from 20th c.]
- My experienced opponent will rape me at chess.
- French: violer
- German: vergewaltigen, schänden
- Italian: stuprare, violentare, violare
- Portuguese: estuprar, violentar
- Russian: наси́ловать
- Spanish: violar
- French: pirater
- German: verderben, schänden, plündern, vergewaltigen
rape (plural rapes)
- (now, historical) One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England. [from 11th c.]
- 1888 March 20, Henry H. Howorth, in a letter to The Archaeological Review, volume 1 (March–August 1888), page 230:
- 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 1888), page 230:
rape (rapes, present participle raping; past and past participle raped)
- (obsolete, intransitive or reflexive) To make haste; to hasten or hurry. [14th-16th c.]
rape (plural rapes)
- (obsolete) Haste; precipitancy; a precipitate course. [14th-17th c.]
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, Wordes Unto Adam:
- So ofte a-daye I mot thy werk renewe, It to correcte and eek to rubbe and scrape; And al is thorugh thy negligence and rape.
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, Wordes Unto Adam:
rape
Nounrape (plural rape)
- Synonym of rapeseed#English|rapeseed, Brassica napus. [late 14th c.]
rape
- The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
- A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
- (obsolete) Fruit plucked in a bunch.
- a rape of grapes
Rape
Proper noun
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