spirit away

Verb

spirit away (third-person singular simple present spirits away, present participle spiriting away, simple past and past participle spirited away)

1. (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
2. (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 Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 156