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English
Etymology
From rape + -ee.
Noun
rapee (plural rapees)
- A victim of rape.
1983, Medical Correctional Association, Corrective and social psychiatry, volume 29:Crime rates are reported on the basis of reported crimes; however, it was estimated that about 80% of rapes go unreported because the rapee usually wishes to avoid the humiliation of having to describe the event in detail to the police […]
1986, Germaine Greer, The madwoman's underclothes: essays and occasional writings 1968-85:Nightmares, depression, pathological shyness, inability to leave the house, terror of darkness, all have been known to develop in otherwise healthy women who have been raped. Malinowski was writing from the point of view of the rapee.
1998, Jonathan Moore, Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention, page 274:The web of social and sexual interactions between military and civil populations is dense and intricate, and HIV travels rapidly through its connecting threads: to wives, girlfriends, sexual partners, and rapees, and from them to the soldiers.
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Verb
rapee
- inflection of rapear:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative