Meaning of rapee | Babel Free

Definitions

A victim of rape.

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Examples

“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 […]”

“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.”

“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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