rapable

English

Alternative forms

• rapeable

Etymology

From rape +‎ -able.

Adjective

rapable (comparative more rapable, superlative most rapable)

1. Capable of, or suitable for, being raped.
   • 1984, Bruce Woodcock, Male mythologies: John Fowles and masculinity:

     To the Adam in man, woman is no more than a rapable receptacle.

   • 2005, Patricia Vettel-Becker, Shooting from the hip: photography, masculinity, and postwar America:

     His weapons have been destroyed; his body has been or can be penetrated. In other words, he is rapable.

   • 2006, Sharon Stockton, The economics of fantasy: rape in twentieth-century literature:

     The rapable female body is the terrain on which all of this is played out […]

Derived terms

• rapability
• unrapable

Translations

Capable of, or suitable for, being raped.

• Dutch: verkrachtbaar (nl)
• Swedish: våldtagbar

See also

• rappable

Anagrams

• parable