transport

transport vb 1 *carry, bear, convey, transmit

Analogous words: *move, remove, shift, transfer: *bring, fetch, take

2 Transport, ravish, enrapture, entrance can all mean to carry away by strong and usually pleasurable emotion.

Transport need not suggest that the transporting emotion is joy or delight; it may be an emotion (as rage, amazement, fear, or wonder) strong enough to exceed ordinary limits; usually, the term implies excessive agitation or excitement

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the test of greatness in a work of art is . . . that it transports us— Read

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transported with rage

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Ravish can imply a seizure by emotion and in this use is typically an emphatic term for a being filled with joy or delight

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his eye was ravished by a thin sunshine of daffodils spread over a meadow— Clemence Dane

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a sound of angelic chimes infinitely ravishing to my senses— Sabatini

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I was given my first taste of music in the high sense, and never, surely, could a youth from a small country town have been more ravished by such an experience— Hall

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Enrapture basically implies a putting into a state of rapture and typically suggests an intense, even ecstatic, delight, often in one of the arts

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he is enrapturing us with his extraordinary powers to make us see and feel beauty— Welty

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he may never achieve a full understanding of the medium of the art that enraptures him— Tassovin

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But sometimes enrapture stresses the bemusing aspect of rapture and then tends to suggest a bedazzling and often a suppressing of the powers of clear thinking

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gives him a weary skepticism before the enraptured claims— Schlesinger b. 1917

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[his] personality simply has not enraptured the voters— Rowland Evans & Robert Novak

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Entrance implies a throwing into a state of mind resembling a trance; it usually suggests a being held spellbound by something that awakens an overmastering emotion (as joy, fear, or wonder)

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entranced with this reverent gesture . . . her tentative approval of her cousin settled into awed respect— Hervey

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he felt his head whirl. Her complete abandon was entrancing— Buck

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the beauty of the land entranced them— Baily

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Analogous words: quicken, stimulate, excite, *provoke: agitate, upset, perturb (see DISCOMPOSE): *lift, elevate

3 deport, *banish, exile, expatriate, ostracize, extradite

Analogous words: expel, *eject, oust

transport n *ecstasy, rapture

Analogous words: enthusiasm, *passion, fervor, ardor: *inspiration, fury, frenzy: bliss, beatitude, blessedness, felicity, *happiness