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rapee en · NOUN

Etymology

From rape + -ee.

Meanings

1. A victim of rape.
   • Nightmares, depression, pathological shyness, inability to leave the house, terror of darkness, all have been known to develop in otherwise healthy women who have been raped. Malinowski was writing from the point of view of the rapee. 1986, Germaine Greer, The madwoman's underclothes: essays and occasional writings 1968-85:
   • The web of social and sexual interactions between military and civil populations is dense and intricate, and HIV travels rapidly through its connecting threads: to wives, girlfriends, sexual partners, and rapees, and from them to the soldiers. 1998, Jonathan Moore, Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention, page 274:
   • Crime rates are reported on the basis of reported crimes; however, it was estimated that about 80% of rapes go unreported because the rapee usually wishes to avoid the humiliation of having to describe the event in detail to the police […] 1983, Medical Correctional Association, Corrective and social psychiatry, volume 29:

Forms

Translations (6)

bg изнасилен (victim of rape) · ar مُغْتَصَب (victim of rape) · bg изнасилена (victim of rape) · pl ofiara gwałtu (victim of rape) · sv våldtäktsoffer (victim of rape) · ar مُغْتَصَبَة (victim of rape)