Search Result for "sexual_assault":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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;
- Example: "most states have replaced the common law definition of rape with statutes defining sexual assault"
[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