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. entrap
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  • Few college football programs can flip an offensive line annually by meshing this many transfers without experiencing significant problems.
    — Bob Ferrante, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2026
  • These historic heels play on the futurism art trend meshed with boho silhouettes of the time, integrating sculptural heels and patchwork into some shoes.
    — Amina Ayoud, Footwear News, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of mesh
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  • Sacrifice is a Netflix original movie starring Chris Evans as an actor working on his comeback who gets abducted by an environmental group led by Anya Taylor-Joy.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Investigators say he had been abducted, driven to another county, and brutally killed.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of abduct
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  • When her sister was kidnapped and murdered by her ex-husband in 2020, Banda retreated from religion.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
  • The man on the line claimed a Mexican drug cartel had kidnapped her 37-year-old daughter.
    — Muskaan Arshad, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of kidnap
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  • One fascination of this brave book—brave in its disclosures but more so in its demands, its spiritual rigor, and its ardent intellectualism—lies in watching the eloquent, intelligent sufferer steadily entrapping herself.
    — James Wood, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
  • How else could that show have ended, the way people were being entrapped, and, certainly, with the dubious legality of it all?
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of entrap
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