SEXUAL ASSAULT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sexual assault mean? 

• SEXUAL ASSAULT (noun)
  The noun SEXUAL ASSAULT has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: SEXUAL ASSAULT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEXUAL ASSAULT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

sex crime; sex offense; sexual abuse; sexual assault

Context example:

most states have replaced the common law definition of rape with statutes defining sexual assault

Hypernyms ("sexual assault" is a kind of...):

regulatory offence; regulatory offense; statutory offence; statutory offense (crimes created by statutes and not by common law)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

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

molestation (the act of subjecting someone to unwanted or improper sexual advances or activity (especially women or children))

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

 Context examples 

We have even identified the use of the alkaloids derived from them in sexual assault cases.

(Scientists examine the ethnobotanical uses of stramonium, University of Granada)

Among other findings, they identified the increasing consumption of this genus as a drug, and, on several occasions, its use in sexual assaults.

(Scientists examine the ethnobotanical uses of stramonium, University of Granada)