rape

(dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of rapen


rape

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 […]

1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

Last April the media world exploded in indignation at the rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park.

1990 January 22, ‘Turning Victims into Saints’, Time:

Castor and Pollux are one set of twins birthed by Leda after her rape by Zeus in swan form; […]

2013, William Butler Yeats, The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

For quotations using this term, see Citations:rape.

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; by extension, any non-consensual sex act forced on or perpetrated by any being.

(slang, sometimes offensive) An 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.

An insult to one's senses so severe that one feels that they cannot ever be the same afterwards.

the Rape of Nanking

Ruin'd orphans of thy rapes complain.

1638, George Sandys, chapter XXII, in A Paraphrase upon Job:

1712, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock:

Ellery Queen deals entirely in murders; you are not fobbed off, as you are with Mr. Leslie Charteris's Saint, with pablum about the rape of the dowager's emeralds, or the theft of the blueprint of the newest submarine.

1959, Dorothy Parker, “Ellery Queen: The New York Murders”, in The Portable Dorothy Parker, New York: Penguin, published 1976, pages 566–8:

She worked under the great tapestry with its glowing but subdued tones—huntsmen with lofted horns had been running down a female stag. After the rape, leaving the grooms to bring the trophy home, they galloped away into the soft brumous Italian skyline; […]

1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur or The Prince of Darkness: A Novel, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN; republished in The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, Quinx, London: Faber and Faber, 1992, →ISBN, page 23:

Few of the Teleri were willing to go forth to war, for they remembered the slaying at the Swanhaven, and the rape of their ships.

(now rare) The taking of something by force; seizure, plunder.

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?

c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

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.

2000 September 8, Mary Beard, The Guardian:

(now archaic) The abduction of a woman, especially for sexual purposes.

Where now are all my hopes? O, never more. / Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore.

1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC:

(obsolete) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.

en-noun

rape (countable and uncountable, plural rapes)

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

From Middle English rapen, rappen (“to abduct; ravish; seduce; rape; seize; snatch; carry off; transport”), probably from Latin rapere (verb), possibly through or influenced by Anglo-Norman rap, rape (noun) (compare also ravish). But compare Swedish rappa (“to snatch, seize, carry off”), Low German rapen (“to snatch, seize”), Dutch rapen (“to pick up, gather, collect”); the relationship with Germanic forms is not clear. Cognate with Lithuanian reikėti (“to be in need”). Compare also rap (“seize, snatch”). Further, some senses may be from Etymology 3, an Old Norse word.


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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."

2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:

"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."

2007, Kunda: The Story of a Child Soldier, →ISBN, page 51:

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

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 […].

1983, Alasdair Gray, “Logopandocy”, in Every Short Story 1951-2012, Canongate, published 2012, page 136:

(transitive, intransitive) To seize by force. (Now often with sexual overtones.)

Paridell rapeth Hellenore:
 Malbecco her pursewes:
 Findes emongst Satyres, whence with him
 To turne she doth refuse.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

A Princess rap’d transcends a Navy storm'd.

1718, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, The Iliad:

(transitive) To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.

I raped your richest roadstead—I plundered Singapore!

1892, Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads:

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.

We've raped the land for power and possession / Two thousand years and all we'll have is a planetary toxic deathbed

(transitive) To plunder, to destroy or despoil.

My experienced opponent will rape me at chess.

(men's slang, sometimes offensive) To subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.

To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce.

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

To exploit an advantage, often involving money, where the other person has little choice but to submit.

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.

2018 January 2, Samantha D. Gottlieb, “8. Mothers and Gardasil”, in Not Quite a Cancer Vaccine. Selling HPV and Cervical Cancer, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 121:

en-verb

rape (third-person singular simple present rapes, present participle raping, simple past and past participle raped)

rapes (present singular third-person)
raping (participle present)
raped (participle past)
raped (past)

smadre

cause damage, destruction to a countryside, nature etc


rape

It seems to me very clear that the rapes of Sussex were divisions already existing there when the Normans landed.

1888 March 20, Henry H. Howorth, in a letter to The Archaeological Review, volume 1 (March–August 1888), page 230

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.

1971, Frank Merry Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England:

These four castles dominated the Sussex rapes named after them; the fifth rape, Bramber, held by William de Braose, was in existence by 1084.

1997, Ann Williams, The English and the Norman Conquest, page 18:

(now historical) One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.

Edward Lye
English Place-Name Society
Rape (county subdivision)
Rope, Cheshire
rape (disambiguation)

Generally considered to derive from Old English rāp (“rope”), in reference to the ropes used to delineate the courts that ruled each rape. Compare Dutch reep and the parish of Rope, Cheshire.
In the 18th century, Edward Lye proposed derivation from Old Norse hreppr (“tract of land”), but this was rejected by the New English Dictionary and is considered "phonologically impossible" by the English Place-Name Society. Others, considering it improbable that the Normans would have adopted a local word, suggest derivation from Old French raper (“take by force”).
See Wikipedia for more.


rape

(obsolete, intransitive or reflexive) To make haste; to hasten or hurry.

From Middle English rapen, from Old Norse hrapa (“to fall, rush headlong, hurry, hasten”), from Proto-Germanic *hrapaną (“to fall down”). Cognate with Norwegian rapa (“to slip, fall”), Danish rappe (“to make haste”), German rappeln (“to hasten, hurry”).


rape

(obsolete) Haste; precipitancy; a precipitate course.


rape

en-adv

rape (comparative more rape, superlative most rape)

more rape (comparative)
most rape (superlative)


rape

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

2001, Bill Lambrecht, Dinner at the New Gene Café, page 231:

Brassica napus
Brassica napus#Translingual

From Middle English rape, from Latin rāpa, from rāpum (“turnip”).


rape

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

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

a rape of grapes

rape of Cistus

1682, John Ray, Methodus Plantarum Nova:

With regard to this obligation, the Council, on 26 October 1971[,] also arranged for certain producers to be totally or partially exempted from it, either because their wine production is very low (less than 50 hectolitres in one marketing year), or because they deliver their rapes of grapes to oenological merchants, or because they make quality wines […]

1971, Bulletin of the European Communities:

From Middle English rape, from rape (“grape stalk, rasper”), from Old French raper, rasper (“to rasp, scratch”), from Old Frankish *raspōn (“to scratch”), related to Old High German raspōn (“to scrape”), Old English ġehrespan (“to strip, spoil”).


rape

first/third-person singular present subjunctive

inflection of rapar:
third-person singular imperative


rape

second-person singular present active imperative of rapiō


rape

So ofte a-daye I mot thy werk renewe, It to correcte and eek to rubbe and scrape; And al is thorugh thy negligence and rape.

c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, Wordes Unto Adam:


rape

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rape (imperative rap, present tense raper, simple past rapa or rapet or rapte, past participle rapa or rapet or rapt, present participle rapende)

rap (imperative)
raper (present)
rapa (past)
rapet (past)
rapte (past)
rapa (participle past)
rapet (participle past)
rapt (participle past)
rapende (participle present)

Imitative, related to Old Norse ropa. Compare Danish ræbe, Icelandic ropa.


rape

Borrowed from Catalan rap (“monkfish”), possibly from Latin rāpum (“turnip”).