Dictionary 1. (n.) Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.2. (n.) The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making. 3. (n.) A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc. 4. (n.) The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery. 5. (n.) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n. 6. (n.) That which is snatched away. 7. (n.) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry. 8. (v. t.) To commit rape upon; to ravish. 9. (v. i.) To rob; to pillage. 10. (n.) One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire. 11. (n.) A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds. Thesaurus abduction abuse assault assault sexually attack banditry barbarize batter battering betray betrayal brigandage brigandism brutalize burn butcher butchery capture carry on compromise criminal assault debauch debauchment deceive defile defilement deflorate defloration deflower deflowering deflowerment depredate depredation despoil despoiling despoilment despoliation destroy devirginate devirgination direption dishonor disorderliness entice foraging foray force forcible seizure freebooting go on hammer kidnapping killing lay waste laying waste lead astray loot looting lure marauding massacre maul mislead mug obstreperousness onslaught outrage pillage pillaging plunder plundering possess sexually priapism rage raid raiding ramp rampage ransacking rant rapine ravage ravagement ravaging rave ravish ravishment razzia reiving rifling riot rioting roar ruin sack sacking savage seduce seducement seduction seizure sexual assault sexual possession shame slaughter snatching soil sow chaos sowing with salt spoil spoiling spoliate spoliation storm sully take take advantage of taking tear tear around tempt terrorize unruliness vandalize violate violation wreck wrong |