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Ravish

//ˈɹæ.vɪʃ// verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force. archaic, literary

    "Again, he refers to "such ministers as discharge their ministry amiss; ravishing away the goods of the widows and fatherless; and serve themselves, not others out of those things which they have received."

  2. 2
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  3. 3
    To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy. transitive

    "That in things that do ravish with delight, men were not Masters of themselves, nor could they remember Gallateo's Rules; and that in time of Carnival, it was lawful to commit exorbitances."

  4. 4
    force (someone) to have sex against their will wordnet
  5. 5
    To rape. dated, transitive

    "For loe that Guest would beare her forcibly, / And meant to ravish her, that rather had to dy."

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  1. 6
    To have vigorous sexual intercourse with. informal

Etymology

From Middle English ravyschen, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French ravis-, present participle stem of ravir (“to seize; to take away hastily”), from Vulgar Latin *rapire, from Latin rapere. See also rape.

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