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.

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.

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.

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.

verb. force (someone) to have sex against their will

verb. hold spellbound

"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."

delight  please  

Ulrika  erucic  father-son  flacon  fortyish  

abduct  abuse  adulterate  alloy  assault sexually  

ravished  ravishes  ravishing