ravish /ˈɹæ.vɪʃ/ verb4 •(old-fashioned) To rape.For loe that Guest would beare her forcibly, / And meant to ravish her, that rather had to dy. — 1590 •To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.That in things that do ravish with delight, men were not Masters of themselves, nor could they remember Gallateo's Rules; and that in time of Carnival, it was lawful to commit exorbitances. — 1669 •(informal) To have vigorous sexual intercourse with. •(literary, no longer used) To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.The Franks ravished it from Muslim hands in the first decade of the sixth century, and the eyes of Islam were swollen with weeping for it; it was one of its griefs. — 2015 formsravished · ravisht · yravished · ravishing · ravishes