Ravish

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  • transitive verb. To force (another) to have sexual intercourse; rape.
  • transitive verb. To overwhelm with emotion; enrapture.
  • transitive verb. To seize and carry away by force.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Ravishment; ecstasy; a transport or rapture.
  • To seize and carry off; transport or take away forcibly; snatch away.
  • To transport mentally; enrapture; bring into a state of ecstasy, as of delight or fear.
  • To deprive by seizure; dispossess violently: with of.
  • To violate the chastity of; commit rape upon; deflower.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
  • transitive verb. To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
  • transitive verb. To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and against her consent; to rape.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
  • verb. To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
  • verb. To rape.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. force (someone) to have sex against their will
  • verb. hold spellbound
  • Word Usage
    "Encapsulated in the root of the word "ravish" is an etymological range of emotional approximations from rapacious to rape, from rapt to rapture--and a word with that sort of seed and yield reveals how intrinsically complex Donne saw his relationship to God."
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