'sexual assault' definitions:
Definition of 'sexual assault'
From: WordNet
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, sexual abuse, sex crime, sex offense]
Synonyms of 'sexual assault'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abuse,
- betrayal,
- criminal assault,
- debauchment,
- defilement,
- defloration,
- deflowering,
- deflowerment,
- despoilment,
- devirgination,
- priapism,
- rape,
- ravage,
- ravishment,
- seducement,
- seduction,
- sexual possession,
- taking,
- violation