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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
- 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
ravished = raped
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