rap

Usage

• rapt

  If someone watches or listens to something with rapt attention, they are so involved with it that they do not notice anything else.

• usurp

  When you usurp someone else's power, position, or role, you take it from them although you do not have the right to do so.

• rapacious

  If you describe a person's behavior as rapacious, you disapprove of them because they always want more money, goods, or possessions than they really need.

• rapturous

  A rapturous feeling or reaction shows extreme pleasure, excitement, or happiness.

• enrapture

  hold spellbound

• rapacity

  extreme gluttony

• rape

  force (someone) to have sex against their will

• rapid

  done or occurring in a brief period of time

• rapidity

  a rate that is rapid

• rapidly

  with rapid movements

• rapine

  the act of despoiling a country in warfare

• rapist

  someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse

• rapture

  a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion

• usurpation

  entry to another's property without right or permission