Unrape

Quick meaning: Unrape is a verb meaning (transitive) Hypothetically, to undo the act of rape; to cause (a person) not to have been raped.

Meaning

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

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.

To illustrate with a crude parallel, the idea is the following: that one cannot unmurder the murdered and that one cannot unrape the raped.

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.”

Word Forms

• unrapes
• unraping
• unraped

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include undrape, undrink, unbetray, unreconstruct, uncause, unroast.

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