Search Result for "sex_offense":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. 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;
- Example: "most states have replaced the common law definition of rape with statutes defining sexual assault"
[syn: sexual assault, sexual abuse, sex crime, sex offense]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sex offense n 1: 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]