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[syn: sexual assault, sexual abuse, sex crime, sex offense]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sexual assault
n 1: 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" [syn: sexual assault, sexual abuse,
sex crime, sex offense]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "sexual assault":
abuse, betrayal, criminal assault, debauchment, defilement,
defloration, deflowering, deflowerment, despoilment, devirgination,
priapism, rape, ravage, ravishment, seducement, seduction,
sexual possession, taking, violation