noun

1. 1. 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
   2. statutory rape
2. Now Rare the act of seizing and carrying away by force
3. the plundering or violent destruction (of a city, etc.), as in warfare
4. any outrageous assault or flagrant violation

Etymology: ME, prob. < the v.

transitive verb raped, raping rap′·ing

1. Now Rare to seize and carry away by force
2. to commit rape on; violate
3. to plunder or destroy

Etymology: ME rapen < L rapere, to seize < IE base *rep-, to seize > ON refsa, to punish, OE repsan, to reprove

intransitive verb