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The correct spelling is rapture.
How to pronounce rapture
/ˈɹɛptʃɘ/
nounIPA: /ˈɹɛptʃɘ/
Say it like: Rap-che-r
The correct spelling is rapture. Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
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Meanings
noun
- 1.Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
- 2.In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")
- 3.The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
- 4.Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
- 5.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.
verb
- 1.To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
- 2.To experience great happiness or excitement.
- 3.To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
- 4.To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
- 5.To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.
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