## Examples
- The audience was ravished by the singer's stunning performance.
- In the old legend, the knight is accused of trying to ravish the maiden.

## Synonyms
- abripe

## Derived Forms
- enravish
- ravishable
- ravishee
- ravisher
- ravishing
- ravishment

## Related Forms
- rape
- usurp

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: ravyschen
- Root: *rapire
- Root: rapere

## Etymology
From Middle English ravyschen, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French ravis-, present participle stem of ravir (“to seize; to take away hastily”), from Vulgar Latin *rapire, from Latin rapere. See also rape.

## AI Etymology
Ravish is from Middle English ravyschen, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French ravis-, present participle stem of ravir (“to seize; to take away hastily”), from Vulgar Latin *rapire, from Latin rapere. See also rape. Important recorded forms include ravyschen (Middle English), *rapire (la-vul), and rapere (Latin). Current senses include to fill someone with intense delight; to enchant and to force someone to have sex against their will; to rape. The wider family includes derived forms such as enravish, ravishable, ravishee, ravisher, and ravishing and related words such as rape and usurp.

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