What is another word for raped?

Pronunciation: [ɹˈe͡ɪpt] (IPA)

Using appropriate language and avoiding terms that normalize or romanticize sexual violence is important, especially when discussing sensitive topics like rape. Here are some alternative words that can be used in place of the word "raped": sexually assaulted, violated, coerced, molested, assaulted, abused, attacked, forced, entrapped, or victimized. It is crucial to understand the gravity of this crime and the detrimental effects it can have on the victim's mental, physical, and emotional health. Using appropriate language when discussing sexual violence is a way to demonstrate respect for survivors and promote greater awareness and understanding of this serious issue.

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Usage examples for Raped

I have in my hand a pamphlet by a physician, in charge of a hospital in New York, who in fifteen years has examined nine hundred children who have been raped, and the age of the youngest was eight months!
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
An old maid claimed her Soth had raped her.
"Backlash"
Winston Marks
He spoke with such innocence that the mosquito had to smile bashfully and look away from the awkwardness of knowing that only a child believes that mother and father are extensions of his own body; only a child walks into the forest with a kind stranger where he is bound to a tree, raped and murdered; and only one warped in the wisdom gained in tragedy finds himself inseparably bound by every stern, euphonious truth uttered by a monster.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills

Famous quotes with Raped

  • For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.
    Fiona Apple
  • The same expertise we learned at the autopsy table can be applied to living people who've been shot, battered, or raped. The search for trace evidence is the same.
    Michael Baden
  • Those most likely to be raped or sexually assaulted are young women between the ages of 16 and 24, women with their whole lives ahead of them. This one act of violence will alter their lives forever.
    Rosa DeLauro
  • The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites.
    David Duke
  • A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.
    Andrea Dworkin

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