Ravish
['rævɪʃ]
Definition
(v. t.) To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
(v. t.) To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
(v. t.) To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and against her consent; to rape.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Violate, deflour, constuprate, defile, abuse, debauch, outrage, commit rape upon.[2]. Enchant, charm, captivate, delight, enrapture, transport.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Entrance, transport, enchant, enrapture, charm, violate, outrage, deflour,debauch,[See DEBAUCH]
Typist: Vilma
Definition
v.t. to seize or carry away by violence: to rob: to have sexual intercourse with by force: to fill with ecstasy.—n. Rav′isher.—p.adj. Rav′ishing delighting to rapture: transporting: ecstatic.—adv. Rav′ishingly in a ravishing manner: with rapture.—n. Rav′ishment act of ravishing: abduction: rape: ecstatic delight: rapture.
Typist: Naomi
Examples
- Your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall which must ravish from you your happiness for ever. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- For example, these ravishing ear-rings and this necklace so superb to correspond, were what one called a love-gift. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- No tint could be more ravishing, no lustre more superb. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It's for Belle, of course, George always sends her some, but these are altogether ravishing, cried Annie, with a great sniff. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- To one of them I owe my knowledge and my proofs--I repeat it, estimable lady--proofs--of the ravishing little family history I go to commence. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It is ravishing! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Your head is all I could ask, for that white bonnet with the rose is quite ravishing. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Himself ravished with the contemplation of the idea of good, and delighting in solid geometry (Rep. Plato. The Republic.
- There was a simultaneous sigh, which created quite a little gust, as the last hope fled, and the treat was ravished from their longing lips. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Well enough pleased, excessively enchanted, and with all their hearts ravished. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- We are perfectly secure in the enjoyment of the firSt. The second may be ravished from us, but can be of no advantage to him who deprives us of them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The farther they went the more apprehensive they became, and every stump in the ravished forest looked like a bear. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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