Meanings
comparative more rapable · superlative most rapable · alternative rapeable
- 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 masculinity2 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 AmericaThe 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
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Dutch verkrachtbaar
- verkrachtbaarCapable of, or suitable for, being raped.
Swedish våldtagbar
- våldtagbarCapable of, or suitable for, being raped.
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