Groped vs Raped - What's the difference?
groped | raped |
(grope)
(lb) To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.
*(Joseph Stevens Buckminster) (1751-1812)
*:to grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities of a worldly life
*1898 , , (Moonfleet), Ch.4:
*:Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually.
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(lb) To examine; to test; to sound.
:(Chaucer)
*Genevan Testament ((w) xxiv)
*:''Felix gropeth him, thinking to have a bribe.
(informal) An act of groping, especially sexually.
(obsolete) an iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel
* 1866 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 544.
(rape)
* 1971 , Frank Merry Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England :
* 1997 , Ann Williams, The English and the Norman Conquest , p. 18:
* 1712', (Alexander Pope), ''The '''rape of the lock
* (rfdate), Sandys:
* 1977 , (JRR Tolkien), The Silmarillion :
* c. 1590 , (William Shakespeare), Titus Andronicus , First Folio 1623, I.1:
* 2000 , (Mary Beard), The Guardian , 8 Sep 2000:
The act of forcing sexual intercourse upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally conceived as a crime committed by a man against a woman, but now often extended (under various legal systems) to include other kinds of forced sexual activity by persons of either sex.
* 1667 , (John Milton), Paradise Lost , II:
* 1990 , ‘Turning Victims into Saints’, Time , 22 Jan 1990:
(obsolete) That which is snatched away.
* Sandys
(obsolete) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
(intransitive) To seize by force. (Now often with overtones of later senses.)
* 1978 , (Gore Vidal), Kalki :
* 1983 , (Alasdair Gray), ‘Logopandocy’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012 ), p. 136:
To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.10:
* 1718 , (Alexander Pope), translating Homer, The Iliad :
To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
* 1892 , (Rudyard Kipling), Barrack-Room Ballads :
(chiefly) To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
* {{quote-news, date = 21 August 2012
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, last = Pilkington
, title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
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* 2007 , Kunda: The Story of a Child Soldier (ISBN 9966082670), page 51:
(obsolete) Haste; precipitancy; a precipitate course.
* c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), Wordes Unto Adam :
Rapeseed, Brassica napus .
* 2001 , Bill Lambrecht, Dinner at the New Gene Café , page 231:
The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking.
A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc.
(obsolete) Fruit plucked in a bunch.
As verbs the difference between groped and raped
is that groped is (grope) while raped is (rape).groped
English
Verb
(head)grope
English
Verb
Noun
(en noun)- Gropes appear to be pieces of iron binding together the inner joint of the fitting, and grope-nails to have been used for fastening these to the wood.
raped
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * * *rape
English
Etymology 1
Probably alternative form of rope (as originally used to mark out boundaries).Noun
(en noun)- There is little, if any, doubt that the division of Sussex into six rapes had been carried out before the Conquest, though the term is not mentioned in any Old English record.
- These four castles dominated the Sussex rapes' named after them; the fifth ' rape , Bramber, held by William de Braose, was in existence by 1084.
See also
* hundred * wapentakeExternal links
*Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) rapere (verb), (etyl) rap, rape (noun) (from (etyl) rapere). But compare (etyl) ."rape, v.2" and "rape, n.3" in the OED Online (Oxford University Press),[http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/158145(accessed September 12, 2012)
Noun
(en noun)- Ruined orphans of thy rapes complain.
- Few of the Teleri were willing to go forth to war, for they remembered the slaying at the Swanhaven, and the rape of their ships.
- Sat. Traytor, if Rome haue law, or we haue power, / Thou and thy Faction shall repent this Rape .
- Bass. Rape call you it my Lord, to cease my owne, / My true betrothed Loue, and now my wife?
- The tale of the rape' of Lucretia, for example, is hardly tellable - as many Roman writers themselves discovered - without raising the question of where seduction ends and rape begins; the ' rape of the Sabines puts a similar question mark over the distinction between rape and marriage.
- I fled; but he pursued (though more, it seems, / Inflamed with lust than rage), and, swifter far, / Me overtook, his mother, all dismayed, / And, in embraces forcible and foul / Engendering with me, of that rape begot / These yelling monsters [...].
- Last April the media world exploded in indignation at the rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park.
- Where now are all my hopes? O, never more. / Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore.
Derived terms
* ass rape/ass-rape * attempted rape * corrective rape * date rape/date-rape * frape * gang rape/gang-rape * marital rape * prison rape * rape alarm * rape camp * rape culture * rape kit * spousal rape * statutory rape * war rapeVerb
(rap)- Dr Ashok's eyes had a tendency to pop whenever he wanted to rape your attention.
- It is six years since my just action to reclaim the armaments raped from here by the Lairds of Dalgetty and Tolly .
- Paridell rapeth Hellenore: / Malbecco her pursewes: / Findes emongst Satyres, whence with him / To turne she doth refuse.
- A Princess rap’d transcends a Navy storm'd.
- I raped your richest roadstead—I plundered Singapore!
- "They taught us nothing but how to cheat, curse and abuse. I never killed in cold blood even if I was known as one of the most fearless fighters. Yes, I abducted several children, I robbed and beat, but I never raped ."
- ''My experienced opponent will rape me at chess.
Synonyms
* (force sexual intercourse) ravish, violate, vitiate * (abuse) plunder, despoilDerived terms
* frape * I've been raped * rapable, rapeable * rapist * rapt * rerapeExternal links
* (rape)Etymology 3
From (etyl) rapen, from (etyl) .Verb
(rap)Noun
(en noun)- So ofte a-daye I mot thy werk renewe, It to correcte and eek to rubbe and scrape; And al is thorugh thy negligence and rape .
Etymology 4
From (etyl) rapa, from .Noun
(rape)- After the Industrial Revolution, it was discovered that rape also yields oil suitable for lubrication.
External links
* (rapeseed) * (Brassica napus)Etymology 5
From (etyl) rape, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- a rape of grapes
- (Ray)