ravish

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɹæ.vɪʃ/   

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force. archaic,literary
    — Again, he refers to "such ministers as discharge their ministry amiss; ravishing away the goods of the widows and fatherless; and serve themselves, not others out of those things which they have received.
  2. To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy. transitive
    — That in things that do ravish with delight, men were not Masters of themselves, nor could they remember Gallateo's Rules; and that in time of Carnival, it was lawful to commit exorbitances.
  3. To rape. dated,transitive
    — For loe that Guest would beare her forcibly, / And meant to ravish her, that rather had to dy.
  4. To have vigorous sexual intercourse with. informal

词形变化

ravishes present,singular,third-person ravishing participle,present ravished participle,past ravished past

词汇关系

近义词
abripe
衍生词
enravish ravishable ravishee ravisher ravishing ravishment
相关词
rape usurp

词源

From Middle English ravyschen, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French ravis-, present participle stem of ravir (“to seize; to take away hastily”), from Vulgar Latin *rapire, from Latin rapere. See also rape.
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