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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

rapable en · ADJ

Etymology

From rap(e) + -able.

Meanings

  1. Capable of, or suitable for, being raped.
    • The rapable female body is the terrain on which all of this is played out […] 2006, Sharon Stockton, The economics of fantasy: rape in twentieth-century literature:
    • His weapons have been destroyed; his body has been or can be penetrated. In other words, he is rapable. 2005, Patricia Vettel-Becker, Shooting from the hip: photography, masculinity, and postwar America:
    • To the Adam in man, woman is no more than a rapable receptacle. 1984, Bruce Woodcock, Male mythologies: John Fowles and masculinity:

Forms

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more rapable Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most rapable Degree=Sup lexicographic
rapeable alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

rapability · unrapable

Relateds

rappable

Translations (2)

sv våldtagbar (Capable of, or suitable for, being raped.) · nl verkrachtbaar (Capable of, or suitable for, being raped.)