A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
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The judge reserved the question of what she called “guardrails for witnesses”—that is, whether Mr. Carroll’s alleged victims will be admonished or perhaps even penalized if they testify that he, rather than “she,” raped them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
“I find that Ritter’s statement that she was raped by Schmidt to be false.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
But these laws punish all women and girls: mothers and non-mothers, wives and single women, women who've had 100 partners and those who were virgins when raped.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2024
Calocane's first admission for mental health treatment came on 25 May after two incidents when he broke into neighbours' flats, believing his mother was being raped inside.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2024
In America or Australia there are no hospitals where lie thousands of girls too young to become mothers who have been raped.
From "Over There" with the Australians by R. Hugh (Reginald Hugh) Knyvett
