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
Sophie had ravished her room too well, and search fell fruitless.
From Beggars on Horseback by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse
By eleven o'clock they had ravished it of its store of arms amounting to some thirty thousand muskets, whilst others had seized the Arsenal and possessed themselves of powder.
From Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
If it so happened that it was a search party from Pesaro, seeking two men disguised as monks who had ravished the coffin of Madonna Paola di Santafior, what should they want of Lazzaro Biancomonte?
From The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Rafael Sabatini
