Meaning

• Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.

• In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")

• The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.

• Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.

• 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.

• A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.

Meaning

• To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.

• To experience great happiness or excitement.

• To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.

• To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.

• To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.