spirit away en · VERB
Pronunciation
Meanings
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(transitive) To remove without anyone's noticing.
The paintings were spirited away under cover of darkness.
Twice my tent was turned inside out in my absence, once my clothes were spirited away while I was bathing, and the night before we broke up the camp I was within an ace of being murdered.
1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
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(transitive) To carry off through the agency of a spirit or through some magical means.
"But far up in the country, in the mountain districts, we still often hear of fairies having been seen, of their spiriting people away into the mountains, and such like.
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 156:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| spiriting away | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| spirits away | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| spirited away | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| spirited away | Tense=Past | lexicographic |
Translations (14)
fi viedä salaa (to spirit away) · ru умыкать (to spirit away) · ru чтобы исчезнуть в воздухе (to spirit away) · su ngahiang (to spirit away) · da trylle væk (to spirit away) · it far svanire nel nulla (to spirit away) · cmn 偷走 (to spirit away) · hu eltüntet (to spirit away) · gl facer desaparecer (to spirit away) · ja 神隠す (to spirit away) · pl zabierać niepostrzeżenie (to spirit away) · pl zabrać niepostrzeżenie (to spirit away) · it far sparire nel nulla (to spirit away) · fi kadota jäljettömiin (to spirit away)