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 rape /ˈrep/
 搶奪,掠奪,強姦,葡萄渣,油菜(vt.)掠奪,搶奪,強姦

 rape /ˈrep/ 名詞

 Rape, n.
 1. The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.
    And ruined orphans of thy rapes complain.   --Sandys.
 2. Law Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
 3. That which is snatched away. [Obs.]
 Where now are all my hopes? O, never more
 Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore.   --Sandys.
 4. Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry. [Obs.]

 Rape n.
 1. Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.
 2. The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
 3. A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.
 Rape wine, a poor, thin wine made from the last dregs of pressed grapes.

 Rape, v. t.
 1. To commit rape upon; to ravish.
 To rape and ren. See under Rap, v. t., to snatch.

 Rape, v. i. To rob; to pillage. [Obs.]

 Rape, n.  One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.

 Rape, n.  Bot. A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.
 Note: ☞ These plants, with the edible turnip, have been variously named, but are all now believed to be derived from the Brassica campestris of Europe, which by some is not considered distinct from the wild stock (Brassica oleracea) of the cabbage. See Cole.
 Broom rape. Bot. See Broom rape, in the Vocabulary.
 Rape cake, the refuse remaining after the oil has been expressed from the rape seed.
 Rape root. Same as Rape.
 Summer rape. Bot. See Colza.
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 rape
      n 1: Eurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop
           [syn: colza, Brassica napus]
      2: the act of despoiling a country in warfare [syn: rapine]
      3: the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse
         against her will [syn: violation, assault, ravishment]
      v 1: force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman
           was raped on her way home at night" [syn: ravish, violate,
            assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage]
      2: destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the
         beautiful country" [syn: spoil, despoil, violate, plunder]