[rap-cher] 
noun, verb -tured, -tur⋅ing.| 1. | ecstatic joy or delight; joyful ecstasy. |
| 2. | Often, raptures. an utterance or expression of ecstatic delight. |
| 3. | the carrying of a person to another place or sphere of existence. |
| 4. | the Rapture, Theology. the experience, anticipated by some fundamentalist Christians, of meeting Christ midway in the air upon his return to earth. |
| 5. | Archaic. the act of carrying off. |
| 6. | to enrapture. |
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