rapable
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rapable (comparative more rapable, superlative most rapable)
- Capable of, or suitable for, being raped.
- 1984, Bruce Woodcock, Male mythologies: John Fowles and masculinity:
- To the Adam in man, woman is no more than a rapable receptacle.
- 2005, Patricia Vettel-Becker, Shooting from the hip: photography, masculinity, and postwar America:
- His weapons have been destroyed; his body has been or can be penetrated. In other words, he is rapable.
- 2006, Sharon Stockton, The economics of fantasy: rape in twentieth-century literature:
- The rapable female body is the terrain on which all of this is played out […]
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Capable of, or suitable for, being raped.
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