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How to pronounce ravish in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, transport
Type of delight, please
Derivation ravishment
Type Words
Synonyms assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, violate
Type of assault, set on, attack, assail
Has types gang-rape
Derivation ravisher, ravishment

Examples of ravish

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The perfect symmetry of this marvellous structure would ravish Michel Angelo.
From the theatlantic.com
Am I so incapable of letting go and allowing fate to ravish my future?
From the timesunion.com
Fellowes understands our yearning for a hero who will ravish us.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
He throws Lola down on the bed and starts to ravish her.
From the metro.co.uk
An even more accomplished mechanism than his does not exist, and many of his piano effects must ravish the connaiseurs.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In the Jim Crow era, white men oppressed black men partially out of fear that the blacks would ravish virginal white women.
From the theatlantic.com
Jatasura was a cunning Rakshasa who, disguised as a Brahmin, attempted to steal the Pandavas'weapons and to ravish their wife Draupadi.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The mythographers tell that Zeus was enamored of Europa and decided to seduce or ravish her, the two being near-equivalent in Greek myth.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The whole notion is light-years away from noblemen out on prancing horses looking for girls to ravish, but it may be a pretty good take on how people actually lived in those days.
From the washingtonpost.com
More examples
  • Rape: force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman was raped on her way home at night"
  • Enchant: hold spellbound
  • (ravishment) entrancement: a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment
  • (ravishment) rape: the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will
  • (Ravishment) In criminal law, rape is an assault by a person involving sexual intercourse with another person without that person's consent. ...
  • To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force; To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy; To rape
  • (ravished) Having the appearance of having been ravished
  • (ravishment) ecstasy; seizure by force; rape
  • (Ravishment) Unlawful carnal knowledge of a female by a male by force, against her will and without her consent.