rapable

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adjective

Capable of, or suitable for, being raped.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

adjectiverapable (comparative more rapable, superlative most rapable)

comparative more rapable · superlative most rapable · alternative rapeable

  1. Capable of, or suitable for, being raped.

    To the Adam in man, woman is no more than a rapable receptacle.

    1984, Bruce Woodcock, Male mythologies: John Fowles and masculinity
    2 more examples

    His weapons have been destroyed; his body has been or can be penetrated. In other words, he is rapable.

    2005, Patricia Vettel-Becker, Shooting from the hip: photography, masculinity, and postwar America

    The rapable female body is the terrain on which all of this is played out […]

    2006, Sharon Stockton, The economics of fantasy: rape in twentieth-century literature

Origin

Translations

Dutch verkrachtbaar
  • verkrachtbaarCapable of, or suitable for, being raped.
Swedish våldtagbar
  • våldtagbarCapable of, or suitable for, being raped.

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