Definition of Gang-rape

1. Verb. Rape (someone) successively with several attackers. "They want to gang-rape the prisoners "; "The prisoner was gang-raped"


Definition of Gang-rape

1. Verb. To perpetrate a gang rape. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gang-rape

gandy dancer
gandy dancers
gane
ganef
ganefs
ganesa
ganev
ganevs
gang
gang-flower
gang-gang
gang-rape (current term)
gang bangs
gang fight
gang rape
gang rapes
gang rapist
gang sign
gang signal
gang up
gang up on
ganga
gangbanged
gangbanger

Literary usage of Gang-rape

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law by Society of Comparative Legislation, London (1900)
"Gang Rape in India.—Rape under the Indian Penal Code is already heavily punished. The penalty is transportation for life ; but even this has been found ..."

2. Shattered Lives: Sexual Violence During the Rwandan Genocide and Its Aftermath by Binaifer Nowrojee, Human Rights Watch/Africa, Dorothy Q. Thomas, Janet Fleischman (1996)
"Often, women were raped multiple times. Many survived one rape or gang-rape, only to be discovered by another group of Interahamwe who would rape ..."

3. The Media and the Rwanda Genocide by Allan Thompson (2007)
"I'm talking girls as young as six, seven years of age, their vaginas would be split and swollen from obviously multiple gang rape, and then they would have ..."

4. No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons by Joanne Mariner (2001)
"... since many continuing and isolated homosexual liaisons originated from a gang rape, or from the ever-present threat of gang rape. ..."

5. World Report 2002: The Events of 2001 by Human Rights Watch (Organization (2002)
"The premeditated gang-rape on June 24 of a twenty-eight year old Tamil woman in Colombo by police and army personnel at a security checkpoint sparked ..."

6. Criminal Justice & Community Response to Rape by Joel Epstein (1995)
"Sigma Alpha Epsilon has adopted a policy of not tolerating sexually abusive behavior, including verbal harassment, date rape, and gang rape. ..."

7. Punishment Before Trial: Prison Conditions in Venezuela by Joanne Mariner, Michael Bochenek (1997)
"... who favor white headbands, and who profess a deadly hatred of members of the neighboring barrio chino gang. Rape Although it is difficult to estimate ..."

8. Journal of Comparative Legislation and International Law by Society of Comparative Legislation, London (1900)
"Gang Rape in India.—Rape under the Indian Penal Code is already heavily punished. The penalty is transportation for life ; but even this has been found ..."

9. Shattered Lives: Sexual Violence During the Rwandan Genocide and Its Aftermath by Binaifer Nowrojee, Human Rights Watch/Africa, Dorothy Q. Thomas, Janet Fleischman (1996)
"Often, women were raped multiple times. Many survived one rape or gang-rape, only to be discovered by another group of Interahamwe who would rape ..."

10. The Media and the Rwanda Genocide by Allan Thompson (2007)
"I'm talking girls as young as six, seven years of age, their vaginas would be split and swollen from obviously multiple gang rape, and then they would have ..."

11. No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons by Joanne Mariner (2001)
"... since many continuing and isolated homosexual liaisons originated from a gang rape, or from the ever-present threat of gang rape. ..."

12. World Report 2002: The Events of 2001 by Human Rights Watch (Organization (2002)
"The premeditated gang-rape on June 24 of a twenty-eight year old Tamil woman in Colombo by police and army personnel at a security checkpoint sparked ..."

13. Criminal Justice & Community Response to Rape by Joel Epstein (1995)
"Sigma Alpha Epsilon has adopted a policy of not tolerating sexually abusive behavior, including verbal harassment, date rape, and gang rape. ..."

14. Punishment Before Trial: Prison Conditions in Venezuela by Joanne Mariner, Michael Bochenek (1997)
"... who favor white headbands, and who profess a deadly hatred of members of the neighboring barrio chino gang. Rape Although it is difficult to estimate ..."

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