Ravish

//ˈɹæ.vɪʃ//

Synonyms for "ravish" (132 found)

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Translations

19 translations across 9 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • отвличам verb (seize and carry away by violence; snatch by force)
  • очаровам verb (transport with joy or delight; delight to ecstasy)

Dutch

4 entries
  • in vervoering brengen verb (transport with joy or delight; delight to ecstasy)
  • ontvoeren verb (seize and carry away by violence; snatch by force)
  • schaken verb (seize and carry away by violence; snatch by force)
  • vervoeren verb (transport with joy or delight; delight to ecstasy)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • ravi verb (transport with joy or delight; delight to ecstasy)

Finnish

1 entries
  • kaapata verb (seize and carry away by violence; snatch by force)

French

2 entries
  • ravir verb (seize and carry away by violence; snatch by force)
  • ravir verb (transport with joy or delight; delight to ecstasy)

German

3 entries
  • entführen verb (seize and carry away by violence; snatch by force)
  • entzücken verb (transport with joy or delight; delight to ecstasy)
  • rauben verb (seize and carry away by violence; snatch by force)

Italian

1 entries
  • rapire verb (seize and carry away by violence; snatch by force)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • arrebatar verb (transport with joy or delight; delight to ecstasy)
  • raptar verb (seize and carry away by violence; snatch by force)

Russian

3 entries
  • восхища́ть verb (transport with joy or delight; delight to ecstasy)
  • похища́ть verb (seize and carry away by violence; snatch by force)
  • схвати́ть verb (seize and carry away by violence; snatch by force)

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

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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.

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The French Government had not taken regular possession of it when the war with England broke out; and Bonaparte hastened to sell that Province to the Americans, who had already cast their eyes upon it, with the view both of preventing the English from ravishing it from him, and of procuring funds to carry on the war.

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The Franks ravished it from Muslim hands in the first decade of the sixth century, and the eyes of Islam were swollen with weeping for it; it was one of its griefs.

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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.

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