Injury and Rape

Injury

Injury noun - Something that causes loss or pain.

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Rape and injury are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rape" instead a noun "Injury".

Rape noun - The act of forcing a person to engage in sexual activity and especially intercourse.

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Injury and rape are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Injury" instead a noun "Rape".

physical	physical injury	physical rape
painful	painful injury	painful rape
brutal	brutal injury	brutal rape
actual	actual injury	actual rape
Other adjectives: real, massive, extreme, serious, infamous, traumatic, mental, frequent, possible, gruesome, accidental, earlier, previous, aforementioned, horrific, self-inflicted.

The same logic was applied long after women were no longer literally considered property the offense of rape, for example, was considered less an injury to the woman and more an injury to the man she "belonged" to.

Source: Marital Rape License
A poignant scene like this happens in Rose of Versailles: Upon hearing Oscar choosing to live as a man in the navy, her ward Andre, who at this point is going blind due to an injury, tries to rape her.

Source: Near-Rape Experience
To add insult to injury, she then accused him of trying to rape her.

Source: Attempted Rape

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