Rapist definition

rāpĭst
rapists
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One who abuses something or treats something improperly.

Rapists of the land.

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A person who commits rape.

That woman was jailed after she was accused of being a rapist.

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(law) One who commits the crime of rape.
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A person who has committed rape.
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Noun

Singular:
rapist
Plural:
rapists

Origin of rapist

  • rape +"Ž -ist

    From Wiktionary

Rapist Sentence Examples

  • Willard Humphries, confessed rapist, began to yawn.

  • I believe each and every person who is prepared to sexually accost another without their consent is a potential rapist.

  • It was strange sitting here, talking to a confessed rapist, with the sound of what was probably more of them eating dinner behind me.

  • You're nothing but a rapist!

  • Police are working hard to catch a serial rapist who has now struck ten times, nine of those over the past three months.

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