Thesaurus: rape

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1. n. Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.
2. n. The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
3. n. A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.
4. n. The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.
5. n. Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
6. n. That which is snatched away.
7. n. Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
8. v. t. To commit rape upon; to ravish.
9. v. i. To rob; to pillage.
10. n. One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.
11. n. A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.
12. n. Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop