RAPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rape mean? 

• RAPE (noun)
  The noun RAPE has 3 senses:

1. Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop

2. the act of despoiling a country in warfare

3. the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will

  Familiarity information: RAPE used as a noun is uncommon.

• RAPE (verb)
  The verb RAPE has 2 senses:

1. force (someone) to have sex against their will

2. destroy and strip of its possession

  Familiarity information: RAPE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Brassica napus; colza; rape

Hypernyms ("rape" is a kind of...):

mustard (any of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica)

Meronyms (substance of "rape"):

rapeseed (seed of rape plants; source of an edible oil)

Holonyms ("rape" is a member of...):

Brassica; genus Brassica (mustards: cabbages; cauliflowers; turnips; etc.)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of despoiling a country in warfare

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

rape; rapine

Hypernyms ("rape" is a kind of...):

pillage; pillaging; plundering (the act of stealing valuable things from a place)

Derivation:

rape (destroy and strip of its possession)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

assault; rape; ravishment; violation

Hypernyms ("rape" is a kind of...):

sex crime; sex offense; sexual abuse; sexual assault (a statutory offense that provides that it is a crime to knowingly cause another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rape"):

date rape (rape in which the rapist is known to the victim (as when they are on a date together))

carnal abuse; statutory rape (sexual intercourse with a person (girl or boy) who has not reached the age of consent (even if both parties participate willingly))

Derivation:

rape (force (someone) to have sex against their will)

• RAPE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rape    ... he / she / it rapes   
Past simple: raped   
Past participle: raped   
-ing form: raping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Force (someone) to have sex against their will

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

assault; dishonor; dishonour; outrage; rape; ravish; violate

Context example:

The woman was raped on her way home at night

Hypernyms (to "rape" is one way to...):

assail; assault; attack; set on (attack someone physically or emotionally)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rape"):

gang-rape (rape (someone) successively with several attackers)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to rape the prisoners

Derivation:

rape (the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will)

raper (someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Destroy and strip of its possession

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

despoil; plunder; rape; spoil; violate

Context example:

The soldiers raped the beautiful country

Hypernyms (to "rape" is one way to...):

destroy; ruin (destroy completely; damage irreparably)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

rape (the act of despoiling a country in warfare)

 Context examples 

Club drugs are also sometimes used as "date rape" drugs, to make someone unable to say no to or fight back against sexual assault.

(Club Drugs, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

Some were undone by lawsuits; others spent all they had in drinking, whoring, and gaming; others fled for treason; many for murder, theft, poisoning, robbery, perjury, forgery, coining false money, for committing rapes, or sodomy; for flying from their colours, or deserting to the enemy; and most of them had broken prison; none of these durst return to their native countries, for fear of being hanged, or of starving in a jail; and therefore they were under the necessity of seeking a livelihood in other places.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)