ravish
verb (used with object)
to fill with strong emotion, especially joy.
will ravish
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future tenseof ravish.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Lo, I, to whose chant thou hast hearkened this day, Thy soul, ere thou know'st it, will ravish away!
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II by John Payne
Defend yourself by rank and wealth, Plead beauty, virtue, youth, and health,-- Unblushing Death will ravish all; The world itself shall pass beneath his pall.
From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Elizur Wright
This is bad for me: they will ravish my licence.
From Villa Rubein, and other stories by John Galsworthy
I must own the Substance of a Man well finish'd is much better,—but here's a Set o'Japan Cups will ravish your Ladyship, a Tradesman's Wife long'd, and miscarry'd about 'em.
From The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) by Thomas Baker
Perhaps the peoples whose souls Helen will ravish away with her kisses may some day have to return to this mysticism to find their souls again.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
