Rape
Rape verb - To engage in sexual activity and especially intercourse with a person unwilling or unable to give consent.
Usage example: a woman was raped in that alley last night
Violate
Violate verb - To engage in sexual activity and especially intercourse with a person unwilling or unable to give consent.
Usage example: the youthful offender had been in prison barely a week when he was violated in the shower room
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The real reason is that back when she was possessed by the vampire Roa, her body was used to rape and violate dozens if not hundreds of men and women.
Source: Freakiness Shame - It's not just the rape, the multiple murders, the sadistic Head Warden or the way that the writer seems to find a new way to violate basic human rights in every chapter.
Source: Darker And Edgier / Fan Works - And "viola" means "[s/he] raped" in Frenchnote it's the historical past tense form of the verb "violer", which means "to violate, to rape".
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