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rapee - What does it mean?

Definition of 'rapee'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A victim of rape.
  • * 1983 , Medical Correctional Association, Corrective and social psychiatry (volume 29)
  • Crime rates are reported on the basis of reported crimes; however, it was estimated that about 80% of rapes go unreported because the rapee usually wishes to avoid the humiliation of having to describe the event in detail to the police
  • * 1986 , Germaine Greer, The madwoman's underclothes: essays and occasional writings 1968-85
  • Nightmares, depression, pathological shyness, inability to leave the house, terror of darkness, all have been known to develop in otherwise healthy women who have been raped. Malinowski was writing from the point of view of the rapee .