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sexual abuse has 3 distinct synonyms spread across 1 of its 1 sense. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
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”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for sexual abuse come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.