rapture
/ˈɹɛptʃɘ/
Dictionary
noun
- Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
- In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")
- The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
- Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
- The 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.
- A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
verb
- 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 take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
- To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.
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