Lavish vs. Ravish — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Lavish and Ravish
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Lavish
Characterized by or produced with extravagance and profusion
A lavish buffet.
Ravish
Ravish may refer to
Lavish
Immoderate in giving or bestowing; unstinting
The critics were lavish with their praise.
Ravish
Seize and carry off (someone) by force
There is no assurance that her infant child will not be ravished from her breast
Lavish
To give or bestow in abundance; shower
Lavished attention on his customers.
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Ravish
Fill (someone) with intense delight; enrapture
Ravished by a sunny afternoon, she had agreed without even thinking
Lavish
To give something in abundance to
"The aides began lavishing him with kindnesses" (Kay Marie Porterfield).
Ravish
To force (another) to have sexual intercourse; rape.
Lavish
Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal.
Lavish of money;
Lavish of praise
Ravish
To overwhelm with emotion; enrapture
Moviegoers who were ravished with delight.
Lavish
Superabundant; excessive.
Lavish spirits
Lavish meal
Ravish
(Archaic) To seize and carry away by force.
Lavish
(obsolete) Unrestrained, impetuous.
Ravish
To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
Lavish
(transitive) To give out extremely generously; to squander.
They lavished money on the dinner.
Ravish
To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
Lavish
(transitive) To give out to (somebody) extremely generously.
They lavished him with praise.
Ravish
To rape.
Lavish
(obsolete) Excessive abundance or expenditure, profusion, prodigality.
Ravish
(slang) To have vigorous sexual intercourse with.
Lavish
Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise.
Ravish
To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
These hairs which thou dost ravish from my chinWill quicken, and accuse thee.
This hand shall ravish thy pretended right.
Lavish
Superabundant; excessive; as, lavish spirits.
Let her have needful, but not lavish, means.
Ravish
To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
Thou hast ravished my heart.
Lavish
To expend or bestow with profusion; to use with prodigality; to squander; as, to lavish money or praise.
Ravish
To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and against her consent; to rape.
Lavish
Expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns;
He was showered with praise
Ravish
Force (someone) to have sex against their will;
The woman was raped on her way home at night
Lavish
Very generous;
Distributed gifts with a lavish hand
The critics were lavish in their praise
A munificent gift
His father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent
Prodigal praise
Unsparing generosity
His unstinted devotion
Called for unstinting aid to Britain
Ravish
Hold spellbound
Lavish
Characterized by extravagance and profusion;
A lavish buffet
A lucullan feast
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