gang rape

noun

: rape of one person by several attackers in succession
gang-rape transitive verb

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Following the alleged gang rape, the lawsuit says Parham went to the Costa Contra Sheriff's Office to report it. Liam Quinn, People.com, 10 Mar. 2025 In places like Freiburg, where a group of predominantly Syrian immigrants participated in a gang rape that became a major news story, the influx fuelled security fears and anti-immigrant sentiment. Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025 And yet, in Suri’s scenario (drawn from the fallout of a 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape that brought to the forefront the country’s problem with violence against women), the other mystery to solve is a knotty, internal one: whether something in Santosh is disappearing, too. Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025 Documentarian and narrative filmmaker Sandhya Suri recalls being struck by an image taken during protests over the horrific gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh by six men on a bus in Delhi. Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for gang rape

Word History

First Known Use

1875, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of gang rape was in 1875

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“Gang rape.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gang%20rape. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.

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