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Raped   /reɪpt/   Listen
Raped

adjective
1.
Having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence.  Synonyms: despoiled, pillaged, ravaged, sacked.






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"Raped" Quotes from Famous Books



... cut down, barricading the roads, they have been cut half way through so that when the wind blows they keep falling on the passing convoys. The inhabitants left in these villages are wild with delight and are giving the troops an inspiring reception. In one town the boches raped all the women before leaving, then locked them down cellar, and carried off all the young ...
— Flying for France • James R. McConnell

... the breed which, at the word of command, had stolen out to drown women and children; had raped women in the streets at the word of command; and, always at the word of command, had sprayed petrol, or squirted flame; or defiled the property and persons of their captives. They stood there outside all humanity. Yet they were made in ...
— France At War - On the Frontier of Civilization • Rudyard Kipling

... the Sahara which gave them immunity from capture through easy avenues of escape that were unknown to those who pursued them. Their raids were sudden and swift. They seized ivory and retreated into the trackless wastes of the north before the guardians of the territory they raped could be made aware of their presence. Relentlessly they slaughtered elephants themselves as well as stealing ivory from the natives. Their following consisted of a hundred or more renegade Arabs and Negro slaves—a fierce, relentless band of cut-throats. ...
— The Son of Tarzan • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... that we had fought and the victory we had won against overpowering odds did not appear to impress him. He only glared at the mountain into the heart of which Inez had been raped away, and shook his fist. Since she was gone all else went for nothing, so much so that he did not offer to assist with the wounded Zulus or show curiosity about the strange old man by whom we had ...
— She and Allan • H. Rider Haggard



Words linked to "Raped" :   destroyed, pillaged



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