sexual abuse

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noun

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, sex crime, sex offense
• Topics:
law, jurisprudence
• Hypernyms:
statutory offense, statutory offence, regulatory offense, regulatory offence
• Hyponyms:
molestation, rape, violation, assault, ravishment