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(transitive) Hypothetically, to undo the act of rape; to cause (a person) not to have been raped..
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.
Use unrape when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Unrape means (transitive) Hypothetically, to undo the act of rape; to cause (a person) not to have been raped..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I could not unoppress all those women; I could not resurrect all the murdered witches; I could not unrape all the little girls.
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