I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sex/rape fiend (= one who commits very unpleasant sex attacks )
acquaintance rape
commit murder/rape/fraud etc
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The couple were accused of committing murder.
date rape
gang rape
oilseed rape
statutory rape
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
attempt
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Tamar obviously had no knowledge that the man who had attempted to rape her was working on her husband's estate.
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In 1971 this offender had been given a ten-year sentence for attempting to rape a 69-year-old woman.
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On the present occasion he was convicted of attempting to rape and then murdering an 81-year-old widow.
charge
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He'd been released on bail by Cheltenham magistrates after being charged with raping a twenty year old woman.
convict
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On the present occasion he was convicted of attempting to rape and then murdering an 81-year-old widow.
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Thompson, 42, was convicted in 1983 of raping and murdering 20-year-old Ginger Fleischli in a Laguna Beach apartment.
kidnap
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The woman was kidnapped and raped Sept. 5.
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You might be kidnapped or raped .
try
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We have already told of another victim still too frightened to tell police of the day Courtney tried to rape her.
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Cabrera, 27, started ripping off her clothes and tried to rape her, she and Hernandez testified later.
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He then ordered her back to the living room where he tried to rape her twice without success.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He was accused of raping his ex-girlfriend.
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Lula was raped on her way home from work.
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The woman was raped and then murdered by her kidnapper.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Manu does not seem to care about being raped, and puts up no resistance.
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It was clear that he meant this literally and also as: to rape a white girl is to rape her father.
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Most experts such as Koss focus on factors outside of criminal intent that contribute to date and acquaintance rape .
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She had been raped and asphyxiated, police said.
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She was dragged into a garden and raped.
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Stallions may show a lack of normal courtship behaviour, raping or savaging mares or displaying an inability to mate.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
marital
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While it could be very difficult to prove that you were raped before your marriage, proving marital rape may be possible.
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Two centuries after Hale's pronouncement, Pollock B. unequivocally expressed his support for the marital rape exemption in similar terms.
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It is unlikely that their enthusiasm for reporting marital rape would be much greater.
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Indeed, Wills J. appeared to query the very existence of a marital rape exemption.
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The Committee was not without its own misgivings about non-cohabitation as a prerequisite for prosecution for marital rape .
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In the thirteenth century context, liability for marital rape would clearly have been quite inconceivable.
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Separation is not always the factor which is chosen to delimit the marital rape exemption.
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Wives prepared to report marital rape to the police may well have husbands who fall into this category.
■ NOUN
acquaintance
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Many questions have been raised about acquaintance rape since the surge of reported cases has been noted across the country.
case
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Specifically the Heilbron Report did not recommend similar anonymity for defendants in rape cases .
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A few cases dominate this reporting, while just over one-half of the rape cases mentioned appeared only in one sample newspaper.
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Police, faced with their third major serial rape case in a decade, frankly are baffled.
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The Government is considering new laws to counter date rape and to improve the way rape cases are handled.
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Even the rape case against him began falling apart when his alleged victim failed to appear in court.
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In the summer of 1974 there had been several questions regarding the possibility of anonymity in rape cases .
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It's the same with these terrible rape cases .
charge
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The rape charge was all a setup, the Brigade huffed.
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He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment on each of the rape charges and four years for each of the indecent assaults.
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A week later, Hagans made another court appearance on the rape charge .
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Three years ago Anna McGurk was murdered by a man who'd been bailed on a rape charge .
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A survey in the 1970s showed that almost one-third of rape charges resulted in conviction of attempted rape.
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She will now have to repeat her allegations when the 52-year-old Surrey man is re-tried on two rape charges .
date
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The Government is considering new laws to counter date rape and to improve the way rape cases are handled.
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All freshmen who attend optional orientation sessions receive information on date rape .
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She talks about relationships and the dangers of date rape .
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Merrill points out that most often rape on college campuses is date rape, but that date rape is rape.
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The research on date rape has helped shape prevention programs, but with few results.
gang
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It follows Operation Orchid, a police investigation into missing boys after a gang rape murder in London.
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Often, they said, a captive woman would try to attach herself to one leader to avoid repeated gang rape .
law
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Traditional rape laws , therefore, also involve some sort of gradation and may well encourage plea-bargaining.
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It is also worth reiterating that traditional rape laws frequently give rise to light sentences for lesser offences.
trial
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This one case took 13 percent of the total coverage of rape trials .
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His evidence will be used in a homosexual rape trial .
victim
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Lawyers do not believe that women jurors are necessarily more likely than men to believe the evidence of alleged rape victims .
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Also patron of nurses and rape victims .
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The emphasis of the research mainly focused on the press reporting of the rape victim .
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Some rape victims might be lucky enough to encounter an emergency room doctor who will prescribe the drugs.
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Genuine rape victims should always be encouraged to come forward, so anonymity is important.
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They serenaded the rape victim inside, cheering a brother on as if it were a football game.
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After the furore over the schoolgirl rape victim , he risks having a controversial but respectable viewpoint mistaken for insensitivity.
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She also works with other rape victims , which is helping to lay her own demons to rest.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
attempted murder/suicide/rape etc
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All I care about is solving this murder, I mean this attempted murder.
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He was acquitted of rape, attempted murder, administering poison with intent and kidnapping.
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In summary, therefore, most special aftercare services have had no effect on repetition rates after attempted suicide.
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Redmond denied attempted murder but admitted wounding with intent.
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Several forces have also seen very sharp rises in attempted murders.
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The charges include the murder of Becky and the attempted murder of Katie in April 1991.
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The suspects were held Wednesday on suspicion of attempted murder, attempted burglary and conspiracy.
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We have cured hundreds of people from Chicago, Ill., from gunshot wounds inflicted in attempted murders and robberies.
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Rape victims receive special counselling and are treated very sensitively.
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a rape victim
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A woman's sexual history should not be introduced in a rape trial.
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It was not the first time he had been accused of rape .
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the rape of the American West
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Wilson has been charged with attempted rape .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also patron of nurses and rape victims.
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Cook, who has previous convictions for robbery, pleaded guilty to attempted rape and to unlawful wounding.
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From the latter, he derived the proposition that intent is the mens rea of rape and to this he added recklessness.
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In the United States, there were more than 150, 000 reported rapes in 1993.
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Murders, theft, rape , calumnies, graft - our daily bread.
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Only one in 10 rape victims reports the crime to authorities, he noted.
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The Government is considering new laws to counter date rape and to improve the way rape cases are handled.
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Violent crimes include murder, rape , robbery and assault.