"sexual abuse" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sexual abuses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} sexual abuse (usually uncountable, plural sexual abuses)
  1. (crime) Any sexual activity that is undesired by one participant but forced on them nonetheless, especially when considered to be more sustained or frequent than an incident of sexual assault. Wikipedia link: sexual abuse Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Crime, Sex, Violence Synonyms: sex abuse, molestation Derived forms: child sexual abuse Translations (forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another): seksuele misbruik (Afrikaans), abús sexual [masculine] (Catalan), 性虐待 (xìngnüèdài) (Chinese Mandarin), seksuelt misbrug [common-gender] (Danish), seksueel misbruik [neuter] (Dutch), seksuaalinen hyväksikäyttö (Finnish), sévices sexuels [masculine] (French), sexueller Missbrauch [masculine] (German), 性的虐待 (seitekigyakutai) (Japanese), 性虐待 (seigyakutai) (Japanese), wykorzystywanie seksualne [neuter] (Polish), abuso sexual [masculine] (Portuguese), abuz sexual [neuter] (Romanian), сексуальное злоупотребление (seksualʹnoje zloupotreblenije) [neuter] (Russian), abuso sexual [masculine] (Spanish), sexuellt övergrepp (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-sexual_abuse-en-noun-EIsYBzqx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

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      "sense": "forcing of undesired sexual activity by one person on another",
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