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
  • Her influence bridged pop culture and high fashion, meshing with the era’s evolving gender norms and defining a timeless elegance.
    Alfredo Mineo, WWD, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Cyber Monday deals will include big price drops on select Amazon devices, including Echo Pop, eero mesh Wi-Fi systems, Amazon Fire TV 50-inch 4-Series, Ring battery doorbell and more.
    Nora Colomer, Fox News, 18 Nov. 2024
Definition of mesh
Verb
  • A week later, Pascal Sleiman, a prominent figure in the Christian Lebanese Forces party, was abducted in the Byblos area of Lebanon.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Humphries was abducted by 22-year-old former dental nurse Julie Kelley, who had recently been pregnant at the time.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of abduct
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  • At age 10, the titular Mediha was kidnapped by ISIS militants and sold into slavery, a fate shared by thousands of Yazidi women and girls.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Dec. 2024
  • And after dinner, I was gently kidnapped, forced to take up residency with the mother-daughter duo for the duration of my two-week stay.
    Juliet Grames, People.com, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of kidnap
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  • The modern ideological stakes of translation—as a fraught operation transposing the utterances of a person enmeshed in a unique cultural fabric—begin here.
    Max Norman, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
  • The agency withdrew its tacit support in 2022 and is currently enmeshed in litigation with the project, which is a collaboration between the Victoria University of Wellington and the political tech and data provider Aristotle.
    Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2024
Definition of enmesh
Verb
  • While awaiting sentencing, Flynn sought to withdraw his guilty plea by claiming he was entrapped by politically motivated federal investigators.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2024
  • That’s why Richard Linklater’s Hit Man, in which Powell plays a philosophy lecturer named Gary Johnson whose part-time job is to entrap criminals by posing as a variety of different assassins, was such a sensation at the 2023 Venice Film Festival.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 July 2024
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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