ravish

ravish

ravish (third-person singular simple present ravishes, present participle ravishing, simple past and past participle ravished)

1. (obsolete or archaic) To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
2. (transitive, usually passive) To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
   • 1873, Jules Verne, chapter 9, Around the World in 80 Days^[1]:

     Passepartout was ravished to behold this celebrated place, and thought that, with its circular walls and dismantled fort, it looked like an immense coffee-cup and saucer.

3. (transitive, now rare) To rape.
   • 1759, Voltaire, chapter 8, Candide^[2]:

     A tall Bulgarian soldier, six feet high, perceiving that I had fainted away at this sight, attempted to ravish me; the operation brought me to my senses. I cried, I struggled, I bit, I scratched, I would have torn the tall Bulgarian’s eyes out, not knowing that what had happened at my father’s castle was a customary thing.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:

     For loe that Guest would beare her forcibly, / And meant to ravish her, that rather had to dy.

	violentare
	Ottenere un rapporto sessuale con la forza, senza il consenso dell'altra persona.
	To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon another person, without their consent.

	rapire
	seize and carry away by violence; snatch by force

	stuprare
	Ottenere un rapporto sessuale con la forza, senza il consenso dell'altra persona.
	To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon another person, without their consent.

	violare
	Ottenere un rapporto sessuale con la forza, senza il consenso dell'altra persona.
	To force sexual intercourse or other sexual activity upon another person, without their consent.

estasiare

Altri significati:

(transitive, usually passive ) To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.

transport with joy or delight; delight to ecstasy

(transitive, now rare) To rape.

To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.

Traduzione 'veloce'

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