ravishes

Ravishes is the third-person singular of ravish, a verb with meanings spanning delight and violation.

To ravish can mean to fill with intense pleasure or to seize and carry away by force: The sunset ravished our senses.

In older or literary usage, ravish means to rape—a sense now largely displaced by the euphemistic quality the word has acquired.

Something that ravishes in the positive sense is ravishing: She looked ravishing in that dress.