If you are ravished by a piece of music, you are overcome with intense feeling while listening to it. The older meaning of ravish is to overcome by physical assault (especially sexual assault) and is still sometimes used.
To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
Verb
hold spellbound
Verb
force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman was raped on her way home at night"
v. t.
To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
v. t.
To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
v. t.
To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and
against her consent; to rape.
Ravish
These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chin Will quicken, and accuse thee.
This hand shall ravish thy pretended right.2.
Thou hast ravished my heart.3.
To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
Usage Examples
Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.
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