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• v  force (someone) to have sex against their will
  The woman was raped on her way home at night
• v  destroy and strip of its possession
  The soldiers raped the beautiful country
• v  strike sharply
• v  make light, repeated taps on a surface
• v  perform rap music
• v  talk volubly
• s  having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence
  the raped countryside

• In the past 12 months he has raped at least nine women and attempted to rape a tenth victims ranging in age from 10 to 52 years .
• A divisive controversy over legalizing abortion arises after the Vatican excommunicates a family for having a girl, raped by her stepfather, undergo the procedure.
• One 13-year-old girl in northern France was raped by as many as 88 youths over a four-month period earlier this year before alerting her parents.

• rape
• ravish
• violate
• assault
• dishonor
• dishonour
• outrage
• spoil
• despoil
• plunder
• rap
• knap
• tap
• knock
• pink
• despoiled
• pillaged
• ravaged
• sacked

News & Articles

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• Woman raped by Jaycee Dugard suspect Garrido in 1976 says he should be executed
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada woman who was abducted and raped in 1976 by California kidnapping suspect Phillip Garrido said Thursday she believes he deserves the death penalty, although his crimes wouldn’t qualify him.
  June 15, 2013 - Mason Valley News
• Victim of alleged rape at Marine base: 'I thought ... I would be safe'
  A 23-year-old Washington, D.C. woman who alleges she was raped on a Marine Corps base just blocks from the U.S. Capitol said she never thought she’d be in danger among members of the military.“I thought I was going to a place where I would be safe,” said Karalen Morthole in an exclusive interview with NBC News. “In my head, I thought these are people who are supposed to be protecting me.”This ...
  June 14, 2013 - NBC NEWS
• Tuesday Memo: Raped, disregarded ... Game platform poll ... Naked hiker
  She was raped, but the cops didn’t believe her: A Lynnwood woman told police she had been raped back in 2008, but claims they bullied her into recanting her story. They were wrong, and now she has sued. In the suit, she claims among other things that police made sure she entered an at-risk you
  June 11, 2013 - Seattle Times

Quotes

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• Laisenia Qarase in guardian.co.uk
  The government they want to set up will be totally illegal,Mr Qarase said in an AP TV interview. "What the military has done is raped our constitution."
• Julianne Moore in FOXNews
  Look at what happens in war, and how whole towns are raped,Moore said. "We have this idea that we've got it together, but you see what happens when there is a natural disaster. Things crumble. Things literally crumble. So the sense that,...
• Mehdi Karroubi in Times Online
  A number of detainees have stated that some female detainees were so brutally raped that their genitals were damaged. Others savagely raped young boys so that they suffer from depression and serious physical and mental damage,Mr Karroubi said...