sex crime
noun
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- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 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
Types & categories
- statutory offense hypernym
- molestation hyponym
- ravishment hyponym
Related & opposite
- law domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | law |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | statutory offense |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | molestation |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | ravishment |