To get an ad-free experience on website and mobile app, please consider taking a subscription. Subscription fee will help us to add more words and definitions along with building language related features.
 |
Meaning of word sexual abuse from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.
sexual abuse noun
Meaning : 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.
Synonyms : sex crime, sex offense, sexual assault
