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[the same pronunciation that rhymes with “tape”]
“Rape” (noun) is ‘a European plant grown for its seeds to extract oil and to feed sheep and goats’,
{It is also called ‘rapeseed’, ‘rape’, ‘oilseed rape’ and ‘rapa’.}
e.g.
Farmers in the European Union, Canada, the US, Australia, China and India grow rape for oil and for animal feed.
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“Rape” (noun) is ‘the act of having sex against a person’s will, i.e. when the person – man or woman – does not like to have sex, using force’; (verb) is ‘to have sex with a person forcibly against their will’; ‘to spoil some culture or system or custom by introducing new ideas or new methods’,
(a man about to rape a woman)
e.g.
The soldiers looted the homes and raped the women of the defeated city.
A young man was charged with the rape of a minor girl.
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