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unrape en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + rape.

Meanings

1. (figuratively, qualifier:literal, transitive) Hypothetically, to undo the act of rape; to cause (a person) not to have been raped.
   • Art should unrape the raped and rape the unraped. 2026 May 1, @ibucunny, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 07 May 2026:
   • To illustrate with a crude parallel, the idea is the following: that one cannot unmurder the murdered and that one cannot unrape the raped. 2013, Avram Hiller, Ramona Ilea, Leonard Kahn, Consequentialism and Environmental Ethics:
   • I could not unoppress all those women; I could not resurrect all the murdered witches; I could not unrape all the little girls. 2008, William Marten, A Killer of Serial Women: A True Story, page 74:
   • In fact, experience has demonstrated that “abortion does not unrape a woman,” and it “promises only to compound the trauma of rape with another experience of violence.” 2011, Nic Samojluk, From Pro-life to Pro-choice:

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