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• v  force (someone) to have sex against their will
• v  hold spellbound

• As writer Rowling doesn't have anything like the technical firepower to ravish a reader with her prose, but she is a peerless charmer, and she doesn't hold back.
• The lord of Montgaudri, a fief on the borders of 11th century Normandy, Fulcun spends the opening chapter trying to nerve himself to ravish a comely peasant girl.
• A young woman (Jacqueline Pearce) with a manuscript in tow strips to the waist, brazenly daring Simon to ravish and, of course, publish her.

• rape
• violate
• assault
• dishonor
• dishonour
• outrage
• enchant
• enrapture
• transport
• enthrall
• enthral
• delight

• disenchant

News & Articles

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• This Fort Myers couple's house is full
  These are the children nobody wanted, until they met Annie and Ed Ravish.
  Nov. 29, 2013 - The News-Press

Quotes

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• Baz Luhrmann in San Jose Mercury News
  There are not many actors who have an ability to pick up a Nicole Kidman, throw her on the bed and ravish her with believability,says Luhrmann.
• John Luther Adams in CBC.ca
  Adams said many of his current works are "designed to ravish and sometimes ravage the listener with more sound than they can take in. It's a process of being in an enclosed space and being inside the sound."