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

Statutory rape.

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

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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

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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").

From Wiktionary
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").

From Wiktionary
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