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Razee vs Rapee - What's the difference?

razee | rapee |

As nouns the difference between razee and rapee

is that razee is an armed ship with its upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, such as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate while rapee is a victim of rape.

As a verb razee

is to cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class.

razee

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (nautical) An armed ship with its upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, such as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate.
    • (Totten)

    Verb

  • (nautical) To cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class.
  • (figurative) To trim or abridge by cutting off parts.
    • to razee a book, or an article
  • *1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) ,
    • "Aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razeed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!"
    (Webster 1913)

    rapee

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A victim of rape.
  • * 1983 , Medical Correctional Association, Corrective and social psychiatry (volume 29)
    • 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
  • * 1986 , Germaine Greer, The madwoman's underclothes: essays and occasional writings 1968-85
    • 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 .