Rapename

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  A surname.

rapenoun詞源 1/ˈɹeɪ̯p/

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  The act of forcing sex upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally coitus forced by a man on a woman, but now generally any sex act forced by any person upon another person, regardless of gender; by extension, any non-consensual sex act forced on or perpetrated by any being.

  • I fled; but he pursued (though more, it seems, / Inflamed with lust than rage), and, swifter far, / Me overtook, his mother, all dismayed, / And, in embraces forcible and foul / Engendering with me, of that rape begot / These yelling monsters […]
  • Fred[erick]. Traytor, doſt dravv upon thy Prince? / Cur[tius]. Your Pardon Sir, I meant it on a Raviſher. / A foul miſguided Villain. / One that ſcarce merits the brave name of Man. / One that betrays his friend, forſakes his VVife; / And vvould commit a Rape upon my Miſtreſs.
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  offensiveslangAn experience that is pleasant for one party and unpleasant for the other, particularly when the unwilling partner's suffering is worse than necessary.

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  offensiveslangAn experience that is pleasant for one party and unpleasant for the other, particularly when the unwilling partner's suffering is worse than necessary.

  • The ear rape of that concert was so bad I can't even listen to their songs at work anymore.
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  archaicThe taking of something by force; seizure, plunder.

  • the Rape of Nanjing
  • Ruin'd orphans of thy rapes complain.
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  archaicThe abduction of a woman, especially for sexual purposes.

  • Sat. Traytor, if Rome haue law, or we haue power, / Thou and thy Faction shall repent this Rape. / Bass. Rape call you it my Lord, to cease my owne, / My true betrothed Loue, and now my wife?
  • The tale of the rape of Lucretia, for example, is hardly tellable - as many Roman writers themselves discovered - without raising the question of where seduction ends and rape begins; the rape of the Sabines puts a similar question mark over the distinction between rape and marriage.
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  obsoleteThat which is snatched away.

  • Where now are all my hopes? O, never more. / Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore.
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  obsoleteMovement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.

rapeverb詞源 1/ˈɹeɪ̯p/

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  To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.

  • The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."
  • "They taught us nothing but how to cheat, curse and abuse. I never killed in cold blood even if I was known as one of the most fearless fighters. Yes, I abducted several children, I robbed and beat, but I never raped."
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  To seize by force. (Now often with sexual overtones.)

  • Dr Ashok's eyes had a tendency to pop whenever he wanted to rape your attention.
  • It is six years since my just action to reclaim the armaments raped from here by the Lairds of Dalgetty and Tolly […].
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  To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.

  • Paridell rapeth Hellenore: Malbecco her pursewes: Findes emongst Satyres, whence with him To turne she doth refuse.
  • A Princess rap’d transcends a Navy storm'd.
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  To plunder, to destroy or despoil.

  • I raped your richest roadstead—I plundered Singapore!
  • They come out here in their perky little foreign cars, fifty pounds of American copper in each one, and tell us we're earth-raping monsters.
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  offensiveslangTo subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.

  • I attended, the mothers went around the circle, introducing themselves. They added a brief statement about their own experiences with vaccine for the reporter’s benefit. Dionne said that she felt “raped” when she was forced to give Tate some vaccinations.
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  offensiveslangTo subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.

  • My experienced opponent will rape me at chess.
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  offensiveslangTo subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.

  • Have you seen the prices in that store lately? I got raped for $20 just buying a sandwich.

rapenoun詞源 2/ˈɹeɪ̯p/

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  historicalOne of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.

  • It seems to me very clear that the rapes of Sussex were divisions already existing there when the Normans landed.
  • There is little, if any, doubt that the division of Sussex into six rapes had been carried out before the Conquest, though the term is not mentioned in any Old English record.

rapeverb詞源 3/ˈɹeɪ̯p/

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  obsoleteTo make haste; to hasten or hurry.

rapenoun詞源 3/ˈɹeɪ̯p/

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  obsoleteHaste; precipitancy; a precipitate course.

rapeadv詞源 3/ˈɹeɪ̯p/

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  obsoleteQuickly; hastily.

rapenoun詞源 4/ˈɹeɪ̯p/

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  Synonym of rapeseed, Brassica napus.

  • After the Industrial Revolution, it was discovered that rape also yields oil suitable for lubrication.

rapenoun詞源 5/ˈɹeɪ̯p/

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  The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.

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  A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.

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  obsoleteFruit plucked in a bunch.

  • a rape of grapes
  • rape of Cistus