sexual assault

2 definitions found

sexual assault - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]

sexual assault - 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