date-raped; date-raping; date-rapes
: to commit date rape on
date rapist
noun
: rape committed by the victim's date
broadly
: acquaintance rape
Examples of date-rape in a Sentence
Noun
He was accused of date rape.
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Kc Baker, People.com, 23 Jan. 2025
But in her lawsuit, Evans says officers did not allow her to be tested for date-rape drugs and that her rape kit was not properly administered.
—Kelly Puente, The Tennessean, 26 June 2024
Kc Baker, People.com, 11 Jan. 2025
Police found incriminating items in the car, including guns, wigs, a date rape drug, a notebook detailing their plans and several personal items belonging to Silverman, including her keys and a forged deed to her townhouse.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
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Verb
During opening arguments in an L.A. courtroom on Jan. 9, prosecutors claimed Pearce gave the women a lethal mix of drugs, including cocaine and fentanyl and, in Giles’s case, the date-rape drug GHB, before dropping the women off, barely alive, with Osborn at separate L.A. hospitals.
—Kc Baker, People.com, 23 Jan. 2025
But in her lawsuit, Evans says officers did not allow her to be tested for date-rape drugs and that her rape kit was not properly administered.
—Kelly Puente, The Tennessean, 26 June 2024
Noun
But the seemingly normal date turned terrifying when the doctor, then 37, drugged Eriksson with strawberries laced with Rohypnol, the date rape drug.
—Kc Baker, People.com, 11 Jan. 2025
Police found incriminating items in the car, including guns, wigs, a date rape drug, a notebook detailing their plans and several personal items belonging to Silverman, including her keys and a forged deed to her townhouse.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
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“Date-rape.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/date-rape. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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date rape
noun
: rape committed by the victim's date
broadly
: acquaintance rape
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