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spirit away
Carry off mysteriously or secretly, as in The police found that the documents had been spirited away from the office. This term derives from the noun spirit, in the sense of “a supernatural being such as a ghost.” [Second half of 1600s]
Example Sentences
They moved forward, relentlessly, ever bent, following a hulking machine with a conveyor belt that spirited away their fruit.
Agents intercepted text messages in which Facey and Sanchez talked about using a private plane to spirit away an underling who had narrowly avoided arrest in Anchorage, prosecutors wrote in the bail motion.
Later on the day it appeared, refuse collectors arrived to spirit away the fridge-freezer.
While the gobies were spirited away to safety, another fish of top concern remained in danger.
Initially, Vallejo police dismissed Quinn’s account of his girlfriend being spirited away by a kidnapper — or kidnappers — who put headphones on him and made him drink a substance that made him sleepy.
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