Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unrape

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-rape
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Hypothetically, to undo the act of rape; to cause (a person) not to have been raped.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"I could not unoppress all those women; I could not resurrect all the murdered witches; I could not unrape all the little girls."
"In fact, experience has demonstrated that “abortion does not unrape a woman,” and it “promises only to compound the trauma of rape with another experience of violence.”"
"To illustrate with a crude parallel, the idea is the following: that one cannot unmurder the murdered and that one cannot unrape the raped."
"Art should unrape the raped and rape the unraped."

Etymology

From un- + rape.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un-

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

unrapes (present, singular) unraping (participle, present) unraped (participle, past) unraped (past)

Questions

What does unrape mean?: Hypothetically, to undo the act of rape; to cause (a person) not to have been raped.
Where does unrape come from?: From un- + rape.

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