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Meanings of ravish in English

Portuguese
encantar
Catalan
encantar
Spanish
encantar

To delight to a high degree; to hold spellbound.

    encantar
    Portuguese
    atacar
    Spanish
    violar

    Force (someone) to have sex against their will.

        atacar
        Usage of ravish in English
        1
        The gods were supposed to ravish feckless girls, not hardened Achaean warriors.
        Discord's apple
        2
        He'll rip off his pants and ravish the lady on the spot!
        The Complete Short Stories Vol. 1
        3
        Turkeys mistake Jeff for female bird in heat and attempt to ravish him.
        You say tomato, I say shut up
        4
        The perfect symmetry of this marvellous structure would ravish Michel Angelo.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 / A Magazin...
        5
        Is this the moment where I get to ravish you both?
        Too wicked to kiss
        6
        It was, indeed, filled with all that might dazzle and ravish the sight.
        Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3
        7
        I tilted my seat back and listened to the wind ravish the car.
        Desert places: a novel of terror
        8
        He would ravish her and cut her throat at the moment of climax.
        Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
        9
        I wanted to carry you out of that tent and ravish you straight away.
        Arabian nights with a rake
        10
        There are chapters of Isaiah that snatch the very soul and ravish it aloft.
        On The Art of Reading
        11
        The beautiful Kleist shall not ravish my beloved from me.
        Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends
        12
        He'd wanted to pull her into his arms and ravish her on the spot.
        On mystic lake
        13
        The hearing of this is enough to ravish one's heart.
        The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come ...
        14
        Flesh, brick, steel, he didn't care-he would ravish it all.
        Complete Books of Blood
        15
        A demon, Drumalika, is passing and, entranced by her grace, decides to ravish her.
        The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry
        16
        Flavella Who could possibly ravish a conquest from your arms?
        The McNaughtens
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