rape

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   destroy and strip of its possession

   The soldiers raped the beautiful country

2. 2
   verb

   force someone to have sex against their will

   The criminal was punished harshly for raping their victim.

3. 3
   noun

   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 […]

4. 4
   noun

   The taking of something by force; seizure, plunder.

   the Rape of Nanjing

5. 5
   noun

   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?

6. 6
   noun

   That which is snatched away.

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

7. 7
   verb

   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."

8. 8
   verb

   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.

Etymology

Generally considered to derive from Old English rāp (“rope”), in reference to the ropes used to delineate the courts that ruled each rape. Compare Dutch reep and the parish of Rope, Cheshire. In the 18th century, Edward Lye proposed derivation from Old Norse hreppr (“tract of land”), but this was rejected by the New English Dictionary and is considered "phonologically impossible" by the English Place-Name Society. Others, considering it improbable that the Normans would have adopted a local word, suggest derivation from Old French raper (“take by force”). See Wikipedia for more.