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Date: 1200-1300
Language: French
Origin: ravir, from Latin rapere; RAPE1

ravish

 verb
     
Related topics: Crime
rav‧ish [transitive] literary
1SCC to force a woman to have sex [= rape]
2 to badly harm something:
a landscape ravished by drought
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