rapture
/ˈɹæpt͡ʃɚ/ verb C2- To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
- To experience great happiness or excitement.
- To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
- To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.
He/she/it raptures · Past raptured · Past participle raptured · -ing form rapturing
Verb forms
- Base form
- rapture
- He/she/it
- raptures
- Past
- raptured
- Past participle
- raptured
- -ing form
- rapturing
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With a sigh of rapture she relapsed into silence.
Anne gave herself up to a silent rapture over the shore road and Marilla guided the sorrel abstractedly while she pondered deeply.
All these raptured voyages of exploration were made in the odd half hours which she was allowed for play, and Anne talked Matthew and Marilla half-deaf over her discoveries.
The rapture of Lydia on this occasion, her adoration of Mrs.
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