raping

English

Verb

raping

1. present participle 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