Ravishes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 275 anagrams from letters in ravishes (aehirssv).
1250-1300; Middle English ravishen Middle French raviss-, long stem of ravir to seize ≪ Latin rapere; see rape1
The danger that England or France might ravish it away from us came to the fore.
They were licensed to break up Negro frolics, whip the men, and ravish the women.
It was a feat altogether to ravish a delighted father's heart, and no wonder that he counted John so great a comfort.
The smell of these roses in the summer was quite enough to ravish you.
The law of rape, until 1849, used these words: "If any man do ravish a woman," &c.
Next they wanted to know if Hill had told "the black men to ravish all the white women."
I will engage them conversationally and ravish them with erect and quivering adjectives.
What war could ravish, commerce could bestow, And he returned a friend, who came a foe.
It was, indeed, filled with all that might dazzle and ravish the sight.
Callot's men are users of the wheel and the estrapade; they roast the husband while they ravish the wife.