Synonyms for rape
- verb
- noun
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Abuse — to force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent
assault, violate, force, dishonor US, dishonour UK, debauch, abuse dated, ravish dated, outrage dated, defile dated, vitiate dated, constuprate dated
2. Plunder — to seize by force. (Now often with sexual overtones.)
plunder, pillage, raid, take, loot, own, capture, snatch, ransack, seize
Other
Noun
1. Violation
violation, ravishment dated
Other
abduction, defloration, defilement, hundred, rapine, colza rare
Definitions
- v. 1
To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
- v. 2
To seize by force. (Now often with sexual overtones.)
- v. 3
To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
- n. 1
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.
Related words
- Word family
- rapedoll raper rapetoy rapism rapist
- Phrases
- rape oil date rape drug acquaintance rape date rape ear rape rape culture rape kit rape test kit
- Is a kind of
- attack copulate do evil
Example sentences
- assault Tom currently faces charges of aggravated assault.
- dishonor We dishonor the living and venerate the dead.
- plunder They lived for deeds of daring and plunder.
- pillage France began to pillage Algeria in 1830.
- thrash If we don't get home now, your dad will thrash you!
- obliterate It's time to obliterate those walls of yours!
By length
- 3 letters
- own1
- 4 letters
- take1, beat1, raid1, sack1, loot1
- 5 letters
- force1, abuse2, seize1, spoil1, colza
- 6 letters
- snatch1, thrash1, defile, ravage2, ravish, rapine
- 7 letters
- hundred2, assault2, capture2, violate3, outrage2, plunder2, pillage2, ransack2, vitiate3, debauch, despoil
- 8 letters
- dishonor3, deflower, spoliate
- 9 letters
- violation4, abduction3, dishonour, depredate
- 10 letters
- obliterate4, defilement, ravishment
- 11 letters
- defloration, constuprate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (abuse2 = 2 syllables).