raping

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of rape

plural rapings

1. countableuncountableRape (sexual violation).

   Even girls of tender years and old women were raped in large numbers throughout the city, and many cases of abnormal and sadistic behavior in connection with these rapings occurred.

   1997, Kelly Dawn Askin, War Crimes Against Women

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   In the 1967 attacks Witnesses reported the rapings of more than one thousand of their women, one mother being sexually violated by six different men, her thirteen-year-old daughter by three men.

   2003, Edmond C. Gruss, The Four Presidents of the Watch Tower Society, page 79

2. countablemisspellinguncountableMisspelling of rapping.