Ravish

[Rav·ish]

If you are ravished by a piece of music, you are overcome with intense feeling while listening to it. The older meaning of ravish is to overcome by physical assault (especially sexual assault) and is still sometimes used.

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To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.

Verb
hold spellbound

Verb
force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman was raped on her way home at night"


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.


Ravish

Rav"ish , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ravished ; p. pr. & vb. n. Ravishing.] [OE. ravissen, F. ravir, fr. L. rapere to snatch or tear away, to ravish. See Rapacious, Rapid, and -ish.] 1. To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin Will quicken, and accuse thee.
This hand shall ravish thy pretended right.
2. To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy. "Ravished . . . for the joy." Chaucer.
Thou hast ravished my heart.
3. To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and against her consent; to rape. Shak. Syn. -- To transport; entrance; enrapture; delight; violate; deflour; force.

To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.

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Usage Examples

Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.

Misspelled Form

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