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Definition

to rape, overwhelm or plunder

The soldiers ravished the city.

ravished = overwhelmed, plundered, and raped

"That girl been ravished," he said.
Ernest J. Gaines -- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

ravished = raped

Shall these enjoy our lands? lie with our wives, Ravish our daughters?
William Shakespeare -- The Life and Death of King Richard III
He took the ravished body of that poor working girl"the money was in her dress, I say"and dumped it four floors down an air-shaft.
Richard Wright -- Native Son
The lover is the priest; the ravished virgin is terrified.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
Many hundred women ravished.
David G. McCullough -- 1776
He must laugh, sleep, ravish, he must talk and sleep.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
I had been pleased with Robin's playing, Alan's ravished me.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Kidnapped
But the human spirit had tried by a desperate contortion to ravish the unknown, flinging down science and history in the struggle, yes, beauty herself.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
Your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall which must ravish from you your happiness forever.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
The Beta blond was ravished away into the sky and kept there, hovering, for three weeks in a wildly anti-social tête-à-tête with the black madman.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
Instead, Mother ravishes Missus Whitworth with degustationary compliments.
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help
VOLP: In vain— BON [RUSHING IN]: Forbear, foul ravisher, libidinous swine!
Ben Jonson -- Volpone
As well can the lover forgive the ravisher of his mistress, as the continent forgive the murders of Britain.
Thomas Paine -- Common Sense
"And thou, creature of guilt and misery," said Cedric, "what became thy lot on the death of thy ravisher?"
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
It's said he leaves a trail of butchered babes and ravished maids behind him.
George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
Though I suspect any fears of being ravished are just wishful thinking on both your parts.
Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty
What is it in the thought of wealth from the ground that so intoxicates, so ravishes away from all reasonable judgment, the generality of mankind?
Grace MacGowan Cooke -- The Power and the Glory
4:9 Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
The Bible -- Song of Solomon

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