Verb

(en verb)

Verb

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(obsolete, or, archaic) To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.

To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.

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, year=1873 , author=Jules Verne , title=Around the World in 80 Days , chapter=9 citation , passage=Passepartout was ravished to behold this celebrated place, and thought that, with its circular walls and dismantled fort, it looked like an immense coffee-cup and saucer.}}

To rape.

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, year=1759 , author=Voltaire , title=Candide , chapter=8 citation , passage=A tall Bulgarian soldier, six feet high, perceiving that I had fainted away at this sight, attempted to ravish me; the operation brought me to my senses. I cried, I struggled, I bit, I scratched, I would have torn the tall Bulgarian’s eyes out, not knowing that what had happened at my father’s castle was a customary thing.}}

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:

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