rape vs reave

rape

verb
  • To plunder, to destroy or despoil. 

  • To overpower, destroy (someone); to trounce. 

  • To force sexual intercourse or other penetrative sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent. 

  • To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct. 

  • To seize by force. (Now often with overtones of later senses.) 

noun
  • Overpowerment; utter defeat. 

  • Synonym of rapeseed, Brassica napus. 

  • A filter containing the stalks and husks of grapes, used for clarifying wine, vinegar, etc. 

  • The stalks and husks of grapes from which the must has been expressed in winemaking. 

  • The act of forcing sex upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally coitus forced by a man on a woman, but now generally any sex act forced by any person upon another person; by extension, any non-consensual sex act forced on or perpetrated by any being. 

  • One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England. 

reave

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