noun

• (slang, sometimes offensive) An experience that is pleasant for one party and unpleasant for the other, particularly when the unwilling partner's suffering is worse than necessary.
• (slang, sometimes offensive) An experience that is pleasant for one party and unpleasant for the other, particularly when the unwilling partner's suffering is worse than necessary.
  "The ear rape of that concert was so bad I can't even listen to their songs at work anymore."
• (now rare) The taking of something by force; seizure, plunder.
  "the Rape of Nanking"
• (now archaic) The abduction of a woman, especially for sexual purposes.
  "Sat. Traytor, if Rome haue law, or we haue power, Thou and thy Faction shall repent this Rape. Bass. Rape call you it my Lord, to cease my owne, My true betrothed Loue, and now my wife?"

verb

• (chiefly transitive) To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon (someone) without their consent.
  "The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go.""
• (transitive, intransitive) To seize by force. (Now often with sexual overtones.)
  "Dr Ashok's eyes had a tendency to pop whenever he wanted to rape your attention."
• (transitive) To carry (someone, especially a woman) off against their will, especially for sex; to abduct.
  "Paridell rapeth Hellenore: Malbecco her pursewes: Findes emongst Satyres, whence with him To turne she doth refuse."
• (transitive) To plunder, to destroy or despoil.
  "I raped your richest roadstead—I plundered Singapore!"

noun

• (now historical) One of the six former administrative divisions of Sussex, England.
  "It seems to me very clear that the rapes of Sussex were divisions already existing there when the Normans landed."

verb

• (obsolete, intransitive or reflexive) To make haste; to hasten or hurry.