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Raped vs Attacked - What's the difference?

raped | attacked |

As verbs the difference between raped and attacked

is that raped is (rape) while attacked is (attack).

raped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (rape)

    • Anagrams

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    rape

    English

    Etymology 1

    Probably alternative form of rope (as originally used to mark out boundaries).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1971 , Frank Merry Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England :
    • 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.
  • * 1997 , Ann Williams, The English and the Norman Conquest , p. 18:
    • 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 * wapentake

    External links

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    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)
  • * 1712', (Alexander Pope), ''The '''rape of the lock
  • * (rfdate), Sandys:
    • Ruined orphans of thy rapes complain.
  • * 1977 , (JRR Tolkien), The Silmarillion :
    • 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.
  • * c. 1590 , (William Shakespeare), Titus Andronicus , First Folio 1623, I.1:
    • 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?
  • * 2000 , (Mary Beard), The Guardian , 8 Sep 2000:
    • 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.
  • 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:
    • 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 [...].
  • * 1990 , ‘Turning Victims into Saints’, Time , 22 Jan 1990:
    • Last April the media world exploded in indignation at the rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park.
  • (obsolete) That which is snatched away.
  • * Sandys
    • Where now are all my hopes? O, never more. / Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore.
  • (obsolete) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
    • 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 rape

    Verb

    (rap)
  • (intransitive) To seize by force. (Now often with overtones of later senses.)
  • * 1978 , (Gore Vidal), Kalki :
    • Dr Ashok's eyes had a tendency to pop whenever he wanted to rape your attention.
  • * 1983 , (Alasdair Gray), ‘Logopandocy’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012 ), p. 136:
    • It is six years since my just action to reclaim the armaments raped from here by the Lairds of Dalgetty and Tolly .
  • To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.10:
    • Paridell rapeth Hellenore: / Malbecco her pursewes: / Findes emongst Satyres, whence with him / To turne she doth refuse.
  • * 1718 , (Alexander Pope), translating Homer, The Iliad :
    • A Princess rap’d transcends a Navy storm'd.
  • To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
  • * 1892 , (Rudyard Kipling), Barrack-Room Ballads :
    • I raped your richest roadstead—I plundered Singapore!
  • (chiefly) To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
  • * {{quote-news, date = 21 August 2012
    • , first = Ed , last = Pilkington , title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , newspaper = The Guardian , url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true , page = , passage = The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."}}
  • * 2007 , Kunda: The Story of a Child Soldier (ISBN 9966082670), page 51:
    • "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, despoil
    Derived terms
    * frape * I've been raped * rapable, rapeable * rapist * rapt * rerape

    External links

    * (rape)

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) rapen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (rap)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Haste; precipitancy; a precipitate course.
  • * c. 1390 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), Wordes Unto Adam :
    • 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 .

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (obsolete) Quickly; hastily.

    • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) rapa, from .

    Noun

    (rape)
  • Rapeseed, Brassica napus .
  • * 2001 , Bill Lambrecht, Dinner at the New Gene Café , page 231:
    • 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)
  • 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.
    • a rape of grapes
    (Ray)

    Quotations

    * 1971 , Bulletin of the European Communities : *: With regard to this obligation, the Council, on 26 October 1971[,] also arranged for certain producers to be totally or partially exempted from it, either because their wine production is very low (less than 50 hectolitres in one marketing year), or because they deliver their rapes of grapes to oenological merchants, or because they make quality wines

    Anagrams

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    attacked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (attack)

    • attack

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An attempt to cause damage or injury to, or to somehow detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I??? Why didn’t I telephone??? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack , and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks' on schools
  • A time in which one attacks. The offence of a battle.
  • (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
  • (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
  • (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
  • The sudden onset of a disease.
  • An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
  • (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
  • (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).

    • Synonyms

    * (volleyball) hit, spike * See also

    Antonyms

    * (music) decay, release

    Derived terms

    * attack is the best form of defence * pincer attack

    Related terms

    * attachment

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To apply violent force to someone or something.
    • This species of snake will only attack humans if it feels threatened.
  • To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar ).
    • She published an article attacking the recent pay cuts.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012
    • , date=June 3 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992) citation , page= , passage=In its God-like prime, The Simpsons attacked well-worn satirical fodder from unexpected angles, finding fresh laughs in the hoariest of subjects.}}
  • To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
  • * Macaulay
    • On the fourth of March he was attacked by fever.
  • * B. Stewart
    • Hydrofluoric acid attacks the glass.
  • To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
    • We´ll have dinner before we attack the biology homework.
    I attacked the meal with a hearty appetite.
  • (cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
  • (cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
  • (cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
  • (soccer) To move forward in an attempt to actively score point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
    • , date=October 15 , author=Michael Da Silva , title=Wigan 1 - 3 Bolton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Six successive defeats had left them rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table but, clearly under instructions to attack from the outset, Bolton started far the brighter.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also

    External links

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