unrape

present singular third person unrapes · participle present unraping · participle past unraped · past unraped

1. figurativelytransitiveliteralHypothetically, to undo the act of rape; to cause (a person) not to have been raped.

   Art should unrape the raped and rape the unraped.

   2026 May 1, @ibucunny, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 07 May 2026

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   I could not unoppress all those women; I could not resurrect all the murdered witches; I could not unrape all the little girls.

   2008, William Marten, A Killer of Serial Women: A True Story, page 74

   In fact, experience has demonstrated that “abortion does not unrape a woman,” and it “promises only to compound the trauma of rape with another experience of violence.”

   2011, Nic Samojluk, From Pro-life to Pro-choice

   To illustrate with a crude parallel, the idea is the following: that one cannot unmurder the murdered and that one cannot unrape the raped.

   2013, Avram Hiller, Ramona Ilea, Leonard Kahn, Consequentialism and Environmental Ethics