raping

English

Verb

raping

1. present participle and gerund of rape

Noun

raping (countable and uncountable, plural rapings)

1. Rape (sexual violation).
   • 1997, Kelly Dawn Askin, War Crimes Against Women:

     Even girls of tender years and old women were raped in large numbers throughout the city, and many cases of abnormal and sadistic behavior in connection with these rapings occurred.

   • 2003, Edmond C. Gruss, The Four Presidents of the Watch Tower Society, page 79:

     In the 1967 attacks Witnesses reported the rapings of more than one thousand of their women, one mother being sexually violated by six different men, her thirteen-year-old daughter by three men.

2. Misspelling of rapping.

Translations

rape — see rape

Anagrams

• paring, pringá