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attempted rape

n. (context legal English) A crime in which rape was the motive for an assault, although no rape was carried out.

Usage examples of "attempted rape".

The outlaws are jailed on $3,000 bond for aggravated assault and attempted rape.

While having breakfast, he had seen the morning paper's account of the assault and attempted rape.

Then there was the attempted rape in Garrisons garden, where the authorities had been unable to supply a better answer to the riddle than to echo Joes statement and report that a man had been killed by a pack of dogs.

Instead, she conveyed her idea that her assault had been attempted murder, not attempted rape.

For their part in the attempted rape, Petyr Rayne and Matrym Greene are sentenced to thirty lashes apiece, which shall be delivered immediately the ship's surgeon declares them sufficiently recovered.

That nigger, he was charged with attempted rape, and they give them pretty stiff sentences for that in the American Army.

For their part in the attempted rape, Petyr Rayne and Matrym Greene are sentenced to thirty lashes apiece, which shall be delivered immediately the ship’.

He wondered if Dorothy knew this man was being held in the Franklin County Prison on a charge of attempted rape of a twenty-six-year-old housewife in Fort McCord.

Did a year at a state school, which ended with him being kicked to a state institution after an attempted rape on a teacher.