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Raptures

noun
Word Frequency: 0.3

Definitions

1.nounExtreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
2.nounIn some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")
3.nounThe act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
4.nounRape; ravishment; sexual violation.
5.nounThe act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.
6.nounA spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
7.verbTo cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
8.verbTo experience great happiness or excitement.
9.verbTo take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
10.verbTo take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
11.verbTo state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.

Synonyms

ecstasyexaltationtransportraptoresraptusparadiseheavenheavensraptorsecstasiesparadisessalvation

Rhymes With

captures
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