Rape Definition

rāp
raped, rapes, raping
noun
rapes
The crime of using force or the threat of force to compel a person to submit to sexual intercourse.
American Heritage Medicine
The crime of engaging in sexual acts, esp. involving penetration of the vagina or anus, usually forcibly, with a person who has not consented; specif., this crime committed by a man upon a woman or girl.
Webster's New World
Webster's New World
Other unlawful sexual intercourse or penetration, as with an unconscious person or person below the age of or incapable of consent.
American Heritage Medicine
An instance of any of these crimes.
American Heritage Medicine
verb
raped, rapes, raping
To use force or threat of force to compel (another person) to submit to sexual intercourse or other sexual penetration.
American Heritage
To commit rape.
Webster's New World
To seize and carry away by force.
Webster's New World
To commit rape on; violate.
Webster's New World
To plunder or destroy.
Webster's New World
adverb

(obsolete) Quickly; hastily. [14th-19th c.]

Wiktionary

Origin of Rape

  • Probably from Latin rapere (verb), Anglo-Norman rap, rape (noun) (from Latin rapere). But compare Swedish rappa (“to snatch, seize, carry off"), Norwegian rapa (“to rip off"), Low German rapen (“to snatch, seize"), Dutch rapen (“to pick up, gather, collect"); the relationship with Germanic forms is not clear. Compare also rap (“seize, snatch").

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English rapen, from Old Norse hrapa (“to fall, rush headlong, hurry, hasten"), from Proto-Germanic *hrapanÄ… (“to fall down"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to move, swing, jump"). Cognate with Norwegian rapa (“to slip, fall"), Danish rappe (“to make haste"), German rappeln (“to hasten, hurry").

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  • From Middle English rape, from Old French rape (“grape stalk, rasper"), from raper, rasper (“to rasp, scratch"), from Old Frankish *raspōn (“to scratch"), related to Old High German raspōn (“to scrape"), Old English Ä¡ehrespan (“to strip, spoil").

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  • Middle English from rapen to rape from Old French raper to abduct from Latin rapere to seize rep- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French râpe grape stalk from Old French from rasper to scrape rasp

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English from Old French from Latin rāpa pl. of rāpum turnip

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Probably alternative form of rope (as originally used to mark out boundaries).

    From Wiktionary

  • From Latin rapa, from rapum (“turnip").

    From Wiktionary

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