to ravish
5
9.9
- verb
- /ˈrævɪʃ/
- Offensive
:
violar
- "And take you to my bed to ravish you for the rest of the night and most of tomorrow."
I mean, I don't usually, if I'm a woman, I don't in my deep recess in my mind, fantasize about being ravished by Bill Gates.
- I mean, I don't usually, if I'm a woman, I don't in my deep recess in my mind, fantasize about being ravished by Bill Gates.
- And the way that you might know which you have is whether as an adult sexually, you would rather ravish or be ravished.
Examples
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You should ravish her, she a lucky girl.
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And I expect him to come down off that stand and ravish me.
Fiction book (1993) -
If I were a man, I would ravish you.
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I'll let you ravish my body.
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Donald, your cousin tried to ravish me, and I defended myself as a good woman ought.
Fiction book (1999) -
You are charged with ravishing Angel Blake.
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He got an urge to bite her neck and ravish her on the floor.
Fiction book (1990) -
You look ravishing, Chenault.
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For example, when Paul saves a plantation and its prized daughter from being ravished by two returned runaway slaves, the father elevates Paul to the status of romantic hero.
Academic text (2018) -
In the story, the hero was accused of attempting to ravish the innocent maiden.
Synonyms
690
5.3
To force someone to have sex against their will
110
8.1
To force someone to have sex against their will
54
8.3
Force someone to have sex when they do not want to
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ravish comes from old words ravir and rapere that meant 'to take by force'. So in older or literary English ravish can mean to force someone to have sex against their will.