- sexual assault, sexual abuse, sex crime, sex offense - 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"
--1 is a kind of statutory offense, statutory offence, regulatory offense, regulatory offence
--1 has particulars: molestation; rape, violation, assault, ravishment