Usually means: Non-consensual sexual act or intercourse.
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We found 56 dictionaries that define the word rape:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. rape: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rape: Merriam-Webster
  3. rape, rape, rape, rape: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rape, rape, rape: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rape: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rape: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rape, rape: Wordnik
  8. rape: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Rape, rape: Wiktionary
  10. rape: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rape: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rape: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. rape: Dictionary.com
  14. rape (n.), rape (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. rape: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Rape (county subdivision), Rape (crime), Rape (disambiguation), Rape (film), Rape (song), Rape: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Rape: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. rape: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. rape: Rhymezone
  20. rape: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. rape: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Rape: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. rape: FreeDictionary.org
  24. rape: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. rape: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. RAPE: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. rape: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. rape: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. rape: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. rape: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rape: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. rape: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Rape: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Rape: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  8. Rape: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  9. Rape (botany), Rape (plant), Rape (vegetable), rape: Medical dictionary
  10. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  11. Rape: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)
  3. RAPE: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rape: HYPP Zoology

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rape, rape: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. RAPE, The Rape, r.a.p.e, rape: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See raped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  Overpowerment; utter defeat.
noun:  An insult to one's senses so severe that one feels that they cannot ever be the same afterwards.
noun:  (now rare) The taking of something by force; seizure, plunder.
noun:  (now archaic) The abduction of a woman, especially for sexual purposes.
noun:  (obsolete) That which is snatched away.
noun:  (obsolete) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
verb:  (chiefly transitive) To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To seize by force. (Now often with sexual overtones.)
verb:  (transitive) To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
verb:  (transitive) To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
verb:  (men's slang, sometimes offensive) To subject (another person) to a painful or unfair experience.
verb:  To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce.
verb:  To exploit an advantage, often involving money, where the other person has little choice but to submit.
noun:  (now historical) One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive or reflexive) To make haste; to hasten or hurry.
noun:  (obsolete) Haste; precipitancy; a precipitate course.
adverb:  (obsolete) Quickly; hastily.
noun:  Synonym of rapeseed, Brassica napus.
noun:  The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
noun:  A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
noun:  (obsolete) Fruit plucked in a bunch.
noun:  A surname.

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