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spiriting away

spiriting away is the present participle and gerund of spirit away.

Meaning of 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.
  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

Questions about spiriting away

What is spiriting away the present participle and gerund of?
Spiriting away is the present participle and gerund of spirit away.

Words near spiriting away in the dictionary

  1. spiritfully
  2. spiritfulness
  3. spirithood
  4. spiritic
  5. spiriting
  6. spiriting away
  7. spiriting off
  8. spiritings
  9. spiritish
  10. spiritism
  11. spiritisms

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