Verb
To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and against her consent; to rape.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe woman was raped on her way home at night Source: Internet
Abduction Statue of Europa representing Europe at Palazzo Ferreria The mythographers tell that Zeus was enamored of Europa and decided to seduce or ravish her, the two being near-equivalent in Greek myth. Source: Internet
Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch Upon the lute doth ravish human sense; Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such As, passing all conceit, needs no defence. Source: Internet
Smith 2002, pp.274–83 The poet Richard Barnfield wrote that Dowland's "heavenly touch upon the lute doth ravish human sense." Source: Internet