Ravish
verb
To fill someone with strong emotions, especially joy.
The beautiful sunset ravished everyone who saw it.
Often appears as...
- ravished by the beauty
- ravished my senses
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Formal
verb
To take a woman's virginity by force.
He was accused of ravishing the young maiden.
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Formal
Literary
verb
To fill someone with strong emotions, especially joy.
The beautiful sunset ravished everyone who saw it.
Often appears as...
- ravished by the beauty
- ravished my senses
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To take a woman's virginity by force.
He was accused of ravishing the young maiden.
Usage tips
Formal
Literary
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Emotion
Used to describe experiencing overwhelming positive feelings, like extreme joy or pleasure.
The opera performance ravished the audience with its beauty.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
Often used metaphorically to describe the impact of something intensely pleasing to the senses.
The aroma of the fresh bread ravished the passersby.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Expression
Use 'ravish' figuratively to express deep admiration or being emotionally moved.
The artist's use of color ravished the critics.
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Emotion
Used to describe experiencing overwhelming positive feelings, like extreme joy or pleasure.
The opera performance ravished the audience with its beauty.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
Often used metaphorically to describe the impact of something intensely pleasing to the senses.
The aroma of the fresh bread ravished the passersby.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Expression
Use 'ravish' figuratively to express deep admiration or being emotionally moved.
The artist's use of color ravished the critics.
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Emotion
Used to describe experiencing overwhelming positive feelings, like extreme joy or pleasure.
The opera performance ravished the audience with its beauty.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
Often used metaphorically to describe the impact of something intensely pleasing to the senses.
The aroma of the fresh bread ravished the passersby.
Pro Tip 3/3Figurative Expression
Use 'ravish' figuratively to express deep admiration or being emotionally moved.
The artist's use of color ravished the critics.
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Hunting for dinosaurs...
These brainy primates were not particularly fast or strong. But they excelled at covering ground, and in a remarkable diaspora surpassing even the dinosaurs' record of territorial conquest, they dispersed across the planet, ravishing every ecosystem they encountered,
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Nature's Greatest...
one male occupies a central position which is more attractive to the hens it takes seven years before the male's mature and acquire their ravishing plumes
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Hunting for dinosaurs...
These brainy primates were not particularly fast or strong. But they excelled at covering ground, and in a remarkable diaspora surpassing even the dinosaurs' record of territorial conquest, they dispersed across the planet, ravishing every ecosystem they encountered,
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Hire the hackers! -...
message from a mystery sponsor dear fox news it has come to our unfortunate attention that both the name and nature of anonymous has been ravished anonymous ladies and gentlemen a sophisticated
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Nature's Greatest...
one male occupies a central position which is more attractive to the hens it takes seven years before the male's mature and acquire their ravishing plumes
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Quote examples
Lana
American Wrestler
If people know anything about Russians, we do things really over the top. We wear high heels everywhere. We show up in the most extravagant outfits. I am just embodying how I was raised and what I grew up in. Some people might think we're extra; I just think we're ravishing.
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Margo Jefferson
American Critic
As the years pass, I find that writers who were once central to me aren't anymore. I revered Yeats's poetry in college. I respect it now and am still ravished by certain lines, but I don't go back to him again and again. I do go back to Emily Dickinson again and again.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
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Eileen Atkins
English Writer
One of the things I love about Helena Bonham Carter is that she is ravishing, but she does as much as she can to play it down and look funny. She doesn't let her looks get in the way. I hugely respect that.
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Ricky Steamboat
American Writer
I learned early on as a baby-face you had adapt to their style. Ravishing Rick Rude had his own style and his own way with a little bit of some Ric Flair-isms. But I always learned to adapt myself.
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Jerry Saltz
American Critic
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.
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Robert Gottlieb
American Writer
River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance.
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Lana
American Wrestler
I embody 'Ravishing.' I come out in the most ravishing dress. I have a ravishing entrance. I'm ravishing people's hearts.
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Tina Louise
American Actress
I don't think I was ravishing, but I think I was pretty.
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Ronald Firbank
English Novelist
She made a ravishing corpse.
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Lana
American Wrestler
If people know anything about Russians, we do things really over the top. We wear high heels everywhere. We show up in the most extravagant outfits. I am just embodying how I was raised and what I grew up in. Some people might think we're extra; I just think we're ravishing.
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Margo Jefferson
American Critic
As the years pass, I find that writers who were once central to me aren't anymore. I revered Yeats's poetry in college. I respect it now and am still ravished by certain lines, but I don't go back to him again and again. I do go back to Emily Dickinson again and again.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
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Eileen Atkins
English Writer
One of the things I love about Helena Bonham Carter is that she is ravishing, but she does as much as she can to play it down and look funny. She doesn't let her looks get in the way. I hugely respect that.
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Ricky Steamboat
American Writer
I learned early on as a baby-face you had adapt to their style. Ravishing Rick Rude had his own style and his own way with a little bit of some Ric Flair-isms. But I always learned to adapt myself.
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Jerry Saltz
American Critic
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.
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Robert Gottlieb
American Writer
River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance.
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Lana
American Wrestler
I embody 'Ravishing.' I come out in the most ravishing dress. I have a ravishing entrance. I'm ravishing people's hearts.
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Tina Louise
American Actress
I don't think I was ravishing, but I think I was pretty.
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Ronald Firbank
English Novelist
She made a ravishing corpse.
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