Meaning & use
ravish
To fill someone with intense delight or admiration, overwhelming them emotionally.
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The soprano's performance ravished the audience into complete silence.
Visitors are ravished by the view from the mountain's summit at sunrise.
A note on using this word
Ravish is mostly encountered today in its adjective form 'ravishing,' meaning stunningly beautiful; the verb has an older, harsher sense of seizing someone by force.
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2. verb
Archaic: to seize and carry someone off by force.
In the old tale, the princess is ravished from the tower by a rival kingdom's soldiers.
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