What does raping mean?
Raping means present participle and gerund of rape.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
present participle and gerund of rape.
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.
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.
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Raping means present participle and gerund of rape.
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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