unrape

English

Etymology

un- +‎ rape

Verb

unrape (third-person singular simple present unrapes, present participle unraping, simple past and past participle unraped)

1. (transitive) Hypothetically, to undo the act of rape; to cause (a person) not to have been raped.
   • 2008, William Marten, A Killer of Serial Women: A True Story, page 74:

     I could not unoppress all those women; I could not resurrect all the murdered witches; I could not unrape all the little girls.

   • 2011, Nic Samojluk, From Pro-life to Pro-choice:

     In fact, experience has demonstrated that “abortion does not unrape a woman,” and it “promises only to compound the trauma of rape with another experience of violence.”

   • 2013, Avram Hiller, Ramona Ilea, Leonard Kahn, Consequentialism and Environmental Ethics:

     To illustrate with a crude parallel, the idea is the following: that one cannot unmurder the murdered and that one cannot unrape the raped.