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Noun sex offense has 1 sense

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