rap-, rav- +

Chiding; reproof; reproach (an obsolete term).

1. Thrown into ecstasy; transported; enraptured.
2. Filled with delight.
3. Thrilled; in a state of delight or ecstasy.

1. To fill with rapture or delight.
2. To have a powerful, agreeable, and often overwhelming emotional effect on someone.

1. Deeply moved.
2. Feeling great rapture or delight; ecstatic, rapturous, rhapsodic.

Erosion as a result of running water or wave action.

1. Taking by force, plundering.
2. Ravenous; greedy.

1. In a rapacious manner; such as, living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey: "The rapacious wolves were devouring the deer."
2. Excessively greedy and grasping: "She was a rapacious divorcee on the prowl to get more money."
3. Devouring or craving food in great quantities: "Despite her liver condition, she had a rapacious appetite for fatty foods."

1. The quality of being rapacious.
2. A disposition to plunder or to exact by oppression.
3. Extreme gluttony.
4. An excessive desire for wealth (usually in large amounts); such as, the rapaciousness (greediness) of some lawyers and certain business people.

1. Any act of sexual intercourse that is forced upon a person.
2. An act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation: "The rape of the countryside by military forces."
3. Archaic: the act of seizing and carrying off by force.
4. Etymologically, "to seize prey, to take by force," from Anglo-French raper, Old French raper "to seize, abduct", a legal term, from Latin rapere "to seize, to carry off by force, to abduct". Latin rapere was used for "sexual violation", but only very rarely; the usual Latin word being stuprum; literally, "disgrace".

The sense of "sexual violation" or "ravishing of a woman" was first recorded in English as a noun, in 1481 A.D. The noun sense of "taking anything (including a woman) away by force" is from about 1400 A.D. The verb in this sense is from 1577 A.D. The term rapist is from 1883 A.D.

Rape by law is an unlawful sexual activity and usually sexual intercourse carried out forcibly or under threat of injury against someone's will or consent; usually of a female or with a person who is beneath a certain age; or someone who is incapable of valid consent because of mental illness, mental deficiency, intoxication, deception, or unconsciousness.

The common-law crime of rape usually involves a man having carnal (sexual) knowledge of a woman not his wife through force and against her will. While some states in the U.S. maintain essentially this definition of rape, most have broadened its scope; especially, in terms of the sex of the persons and the nature of the acts involved.

Marital status is usually irrelevant; moreover, the crime is codified under various names, including first degree sexual assault, sexual battery, unlawful sexual intercourse, and first degree sexual abuse.

1. Acting, moving, or happening very quickly.
2. Occurring within a short time; happening speedily: "rapid growth".
3. Moving or acting with great speed; swift: "a rapid worker".
4. Characterized by speed: "rapid motion".
5. Etymologically, rapid is traced back to 1634, from Latin rapidus, "hasty, snatching", from rapere, "hurry away, carry off, seize, plunder" (related to Greek ereptomai, "devour"; harpazein "snatch away"). Rapids is from 1765, from French rapides, applied by French voyagers to North American rivers. "Rapid-transit first attested" in 1873; "rapid eye movement" is from 1916.

Like rape and rapture, rapid came ultimately from Latin rapere, "seize by force". From this was derived the adjective rapidus, which originally denoted "carrying off by force".

The notion of "swiftness" soon became incorporated into the meaning; however, and although the Latin adjective retained its original comnnotations of "violence" (it suggested "impetuous speed" or "haste); by the time it reached English, it had simply become synonymous with "quick" or "fast".

A rapid state or quality; speediness; celerity.

1. A reference to fast movements.
2. With great speed, celerity, or velocity; swiftly.
3. With quick progression; such as, to run rapidly; to grow or to improve rapidly.
4. With fast utterance; such as, to speak rapidly.

Moving, acting, or occurring with great speed.

1. An extremely fast-moving or fast-flowing part of a river, caused by a steep descent in the riverbed.
2. The part of a river where the current moves with more celerity than the common current.

A rapids is a section of a river where it loses elevation over a relatively short distance when the stream gradient is locally steepened, causing an increase in water flow and turbulence.

1. Forcible seizure of another's property; plunder.
2. The violent seizure and carrying off of another's property; to plunder.
3. The act of despoiling a country in warfare.
4. Etymologically: from Middle English, from Old French, from Latin rapna, from rapere, "to seize".