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sexual assault is a 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". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
law
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sexual assault come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.