as in to fasten (on)
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spirit (away or off)
Verb
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Many of the album’s guests appeared on DDG’s Hit A Thon livestream, further meshing the worlds of musicians and content creators.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
11 May 2025 -
James and Doncic will mesh better next season if both return, and both are expected to return.—
Bill Plaschke,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2025
Verb
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He was abducted at age 19 from his base during the Oct. 7 attacks.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
11 May 2025
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The film will follow a retired surgeon (Yeoh) who is abducted and forced to operate on a mystery patient.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
11 May 2025
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The film’s synopsis describes a harrowing premise: During the 1978 World Cup soccer final, amid Argentina’s military dictatorship, a group of torturers violently breaks into a home and kidnaps young people to take them to a clandestine detention center.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
18 May 2025
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In the end, the majority of the 16 U.S. missionaries and one Canadian national who were kidnapped in October 2021 and held for ransom for two months by Haiti’s notorious 400 Mawozo gang were freed only after a $350,000 ransom was paid.—
Shirsho Dasgupta,
Miami Herald,
16 May 2025
Verb
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Advertisement Kilmer had a reputation for being difficult, or at least just eccentric, but his quirks were enmeshed with his talent.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
2 Apr. 2025
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This 74-episode slow-burn neo-noir mystery series is about a successful young surgeon enmeshed in the underbelly of international crime and politics.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
2 May 2025
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Soon after the hearing, Bolsonaro’s son Eduardo gave a speech from the floor of the legislature, accusing her of seducing sources to entrap his father.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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In the book, Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) chops off romance novelist Paul Sheldon's feet as part of her efforts to entrap him permanently in her home.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
29 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Video, however, showed the boy turning away from an officer, fists unclenched, when he was sprayed in the face.—
James Queally,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2025
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There are plenty of ways to fist gently and sensually.—
Quispe López,
Them.,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Spirit (away or off).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spirit%20%28away%20or%20off%29. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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