Definition

1. Verb:
   • To commit the crime of rape against a single victim with multiple attackers participating successively or collectively.

Usage

• The verb "gang-rape" describes a specific, violent criminal act. It is a transitive verb, requiring a direct object (the victim).
• It is typically used in legal, journalistic, or formal contexts to report or describe this severe crime.
• The past tense and past participle are formed regularly: "gang-raped."

Examples

• Verb:
  • The assailants were arrested for attempting to gang-rape a woman.
  • Several victims testified that they had been gang-raped by the soldiers.
  • The documentary investigated cases where women were gang-raped with impunity.

Advanced Usage

• Legal/Formal Context: The term is used in official reports, court proceedings, and news articles to precisely describe the nature of the crime.
  • The indictment included charges that the defendants did conspire to gang-rape the complainant.

Variants and Related Words

• Gang rape (noun): The criminal act itself.
  • She was a survivor of a brutal gang rape.
• Rape (verb/noun): The broader act of sexual assault.
• Sexual assault (noun): A wider legal category that includes rape.

Synonyms

• Sexually assault (as a group): A more general phrase, though it lacks the specific connotation of multiple perpetrators acting against one victim.
• Violate (as a group): A more literary or general term for sexual assault.

Note: Due to the severe and specific nature of this crime, there are very few direct synonyms that carry the exact same meaning. Most alternatives are descriptive phrases (e.g., "raped by a group," "subjected to a multiple-perpetrator rape").

Verb

1. rape (someone) successively with several attackers
   • The prisoner was gang-raped