ravish

rav·ish (r

sh)

tr.v. rav·ished, rav·ish·ing, rav·ish·es

1. To seize and carry away by force.

2. To force (another) to have sexual intercourse; rape.

3. To overwhelm with emotion; enrapture. See Synonyms at enrapture.

[Middle English ravisshen, from Old French ravir, raviss-, from Vulgar Latin *rapre, from Latin rapere, to seize; see rep- in Indo-European roots.]

ravish·er n.

ravish [ˈrævɪʃ]

vb (tr)

1. (often passive) to give great delight to; enrapture

2. to rape

3. Archaic to carry off by force

[from Old French ravir, from Latin rapere to seize]

ravisher n

ravishment n

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms

Verb	1.	ravish - force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman was raped on her way home at night" rape, assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage, violate assail, assault, set on, attack - attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly" gang-rape - rape (someone) successively with several attackers; "The prisoner was gang-raped"
	2.	ravish - hold spellbound enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, transport, delight delight, please - give pleasure to or be pleasing to; "These colors please the senses"; "a pleasing sensation"

ravish

verb

1. (Literary) rape, sexually assault, violate, abuse, force, outrage Her ravished body was found a week later.

2. enchant, transport, delight, charm, fascinate, entrance, captivate, enrapture, spellbind, overjoy an eerie power to ravish the eye and seduce the soul

Quotations
"He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him" [Henry Fielding Jonathan Wild]

Translations

ravish [ˈrævɪʃ] VT

1. (= charm) → encantar, embelesar

2. (liter) (= carry off) → raptar, robar; (= rape) → violar

ravish [ˈrævɪʃ] vt → ravir

ravish

(= delight) → hinreißen

(old, liter: = rape) → schänden (geh); (obs: = abduct) → rauben

ravish [ˈrævɪʃ] vt

a. (liter) (enchant, delight) → estasiare, rapire

b. (old) (rape) → violentare; (carry off) → rapire

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The band played the polonaise in vogue at that time on account of the words that had been set to it, beginning: "Alexander, Elisaveta, all our hearts you ravish quite.

War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

Do thou, sweet Zephyrus, rising from thy fragrant bed, mount the western sky, and lead on those delicious gales, the charms of which call forth the lovely Flora from her chamber, perfumed with pearly dews, when on the 1st of June, her birth-day, the blooming maid, in loose attire, gently trips it over the verdant mead, where every flower rises to do her homage, till the whole field becomes enamelled, and colours contend with sweets which shall ravish her most.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context

And now, when she has ruined her, she would ravish from her the only thing that renders that woman excusable in my eyes.

The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas, Alexandre View in context

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