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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