spirit (away or off)

verb

Definition of spirit (away or off)next
as in to fasten (on)

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  1. mesh
  2. abduct
  3. kidnap
  4. enmesh
  5. entrap
  6. fist
Verb
  • As Breit tells it, Deschanel’s traditional practices didn’t always mesh with Cassavetes’ roving experimentation.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Caruso's defense has meshed perfectly with the current core, while Giddey has had his struggles in Chicago, particularly from a defensive perspective.
    Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of mesh
Verb
  • In the 12 years since Austin Tice was abducted in Syria, his family and his coworkers at McClatchy have grieved at the absence of our writer, despaired at silence from the Syrian government and prayed that promises from three U.S. presidents would turn into actions that brought Austin home.
    Tony Hunter, The Denver Post, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Pacheco became mayor in late October after his predecessor Maribel Juárez Blanquet was abducted earlier in the year, according to the Mexican newspaper El Universal.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of abduct
Verb
  • Meanwhile, Pete kidnapped Jay’s body to go visit his daughter, who is moving to Australia.
    Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The plate seems to reference Oct. 7, when Hamas militants stormed into Israel, killing about 1,200 people and kidnapping about 250.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of kidnap
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  • Meanwhile, governments that took up the mantle of climate leadership during Trump's first term, such as Germany, France and Canada, are enmeshed in political instability.
    Andrew Freedman, Axios, 19 Dec. 2024
  • President Biden is enmeshed in a pardon scandal of his own making.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of enmesh
Verb
  • While the requirement to stay in character was applied externally—in some cases by media attempts to entrap Santas with the suggestion of inappropriate behavior—the men Hancock interviewed described feeling their own commitment.
    Laura Clawson, JSTOR Daily, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Moon must avoid either entrapping or enabling Kim, while persuading a skeptical Trump that only the United States can make a lasting deal with North Korea.
    Scott Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 23 Feb. 2018
Definition of entrap
Verb
  • Watch baseball, football, or any team sport: Players support each other and strengthen their bonds by interacting with each other in high fives, hands clasping or shaking, fists bumping, pats on the head or back—and even hugs.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 17 June 2024
  • But hockey fights almost always involve mutual, bone-crushing blows, fists jackhammering from powerful shoulders, sometimes fracturing bones, tearing tissue and rattling brains.
    David Waldstein, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
Definition of fist
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