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sexual assault

noun

1 sexual assault

A statutory offense that provides that it is a crime to knowingly cause another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat:
— Most states have replaced the common law definition of rape with statutes defining sexual assault.

synonyms: sex crime, sex offense, sexual abuse.


Moby thesaurus: abuse, betrayal, criminal assault, debauchment, defilement, defloration, deflowering, deflowerment, despoilment, devirgination, priapism, rape, ravage, ravishment, seducement, seduction, sexual possession, taking, violation.

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