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of one's mind or head: He stood there shouting and screaming,
like a raving lunatic. 2 extraordinary, outstanding, unusual,
rare, uncommon, phenomenal, great, striking, ravishing, Colloq
stunning: Diana had been a raving beauty in her time.
--n. 3 Often, ravings. rant, ranting, bombast, pomposity,
grandiloquence, magniloquence, rodomontade, rhetoric, bluster,
blustering, claptrap, balderdash, puffery, bunkum, flatulence,
hyperbole, vapouring, fustian, Colloq hot air, bunk: Why must
we be subjected to the ravings of this politician? 4 gabble,
babble, babbling, gibberish, Colloq gab: This is nothing more
than the raving of a maniac.
ravish v. 1 enrapture, delight, captivate, enthral, fascinate, charm,
entrance, spellbind, bewitch, transport: I was ravished at the
prospect of seeing you again. 2 rape, violate, have one's way
with, deflower, defile: The soldiers attacked the village and
ravished the women.
ravishing adj. dazzling, beautiful, gorgeous, striking, radiant,
charming, alluring, attractive, entrancing, captivating,
enthralling, bewitching, spellbinding, Colloq stunning: Daphne
was even more ravishing than her sister Diana.
raw adj. 1 uncooked, unprepared, fresh: Many vegetables can be
eaten raw. 2 unprocessed, untreated, unrefined, unfinished,
natural, crude: The raw sugar is shipped to the plant where it
is refined. The raw statistics revealed that many women had
refused to respond to the questionnaire. 3 new, inexperienced,
unseasoned, immature, green, untried, fresh, untrained,
unskilled, untested: They sent us raw recruits who had never
seen battle. 4 exposed, unprotected, uncovered, open; sore,
tender, inflamed, painful, sensitive: When he mentioned her
name, it was as if he had touched a raw nerve. 5 chill, chilly,
chilling, cold, damp, frigid, freezing, biting, stinging, nippy,
nipping, sharp, keen, piercing, penetrating: You should wrap up
warmly if you're going out in that raw wind. 6 brutal, frank,
candid, blunt, direct, unvarnished, unmollified, unembellished,
realistic, honest, plain, unreserved, unrestrained, uninhibited,
bluff, straightforward: The producer felt that no domestic
audience could stomach a raw depiction of the horrors of war.
--n. 7 in the raw. naked, stark naked, undressed, unclothed,