rape
verb/reɪp/
/reɪp/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they rape | /reɪp/ /reɪp/ |
| he / she / it rapes | /reɪps/ /reɪps/ |
| past simple raped | /reɪpt/ /reɪpt/ |
| past participle raped | /reɪpt/ /reɪpt/ |
| -ing form raping | /ˈreɪpɪŋ/ /ˈreɪpɪŋ/ |
- rape somebody to force somebody to have sex when they do not want it or are not able to agree to it
- She was attacked and raped.
Extra ExamplesTopics Crime and punishmentc1- A jogger was raped at knifepoint.
- The man was charged with raping a teenager.
- She had been raped in her own home at the age of fifteen.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- brutally
- viciously
- violently
- …
- attempt to
- try to
- be raped
- get raped
- be accused of raping somebody
- …
Word Originverb late Middle English (originally denoting violent seizure of property, later carrying off a woman by force): from Anglo-Norman French rap (noun), raper (verb), from Latin rapere ‘seize’.
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