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rapture

UK /ˈɹæpt͡ʃəː/US /ˈɹæpt͡ʃɚ/

noun 5
verb 5
forms 3

noun5

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Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
- They went into raptures about the meal they'd had.
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A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
- Your pratling nurse Into a rapture lets her baby cry — 1608
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(no longer used) The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.
- That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash / With headlong rapture. — 1614
(no longer used) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
(no longer used) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.

verb5

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To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
- These fiction books told the story of some church people who were raptured but focused on the people who were not raptured. — 2007
(rare) To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
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To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.
- Pulling her leggings down over unshaven legs, she raptured "I'm dry!" to her audience. — 2003
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(old-fashioned) To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
- She raptured me in summer by giving me Fitzgerald's flawed and gorgeous masterpiece, the book that held his tortured heart. — 2012
(old-fashioned) To experience great happiness or excitement.

forms

raptured · rapturing · raptures

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