ravish
verb (used with object)
to fill with strong emotion, especially joy.
had ravished
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past perfectof ravish.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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When the pandemic forced her shop closed in March, Myers, like many of her neighbors, was still steeped in debt from two floods that had ravished the city over the past four years.
From Washington Post ● May 14, 2020
General conclusion: that the charge of "conspiracy" was only a detestable cloak of subterfuge under which the agents of a debased gendarmerie had ravished from a hungry infant its proper milk.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Scotch pup had ravished the rag-doll from the nursery, dragged it to a corner of the lawn, dug a hole, and buried it after the manner of careless undertakers.
From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by O. Henry
He picked up the remains of the journal from which Gladys had ravished a cosmetic of silken sounds.
From Whirligigs by O. Henry
If the amulets had ravished Rose from himself, they did it at a distance, for I had not worn them since that day.—You needn't look.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various
