spirit (away or off)

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spirit (away or off)
Verb
  • To achieve the look, several electrically conductive and insulating layers are meshed.
    Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
  • Ryan and Rory bring a soulful-style harmony that meshes well with Johnson’s burly, warm vocal and further elevate the song’s timeless sound.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 23 June 2025
Verb
  • Within 48-hours of his release, Khalil was back on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, addressing supporters and even protesting outside of Columbia University’s gates, not far from where he had been abducted in March.
    Steven W. Thrasher June 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
  • Elio follows 11-year-old orphan Elio Solís, who feels so alone that his biggest wish is to be abducted by aliens… and somehow, that wish comes true.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Verb
  • The Haitian population is being exploited, raped, kidnapped, and recruited by armed gangs.
    Jacqueline Charles July 3, Miami Herald, 3 July 2025
  • The Amber Alert system got its start in 1996; Amber stands for America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response and was created as a legacy to 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, who was kidnapped while riding her bicycle in Arlington, Texas, and brutally murdered.
    Liz Kellar, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Verb
  • The results showed that students with low differentiation — those who were more emotionally enmeshed with others — experienced higher social anxiety, fear of judgment, stress and more somatic symptoms like headaches, fatigue or physical tension.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
  • Gucci has been enmeshed with the sport since the debut of its first tennis sneaker in 1977.
    Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 30 June 2025
Verb
  • Most horror flicks entrap their characters in one location or put them in some sort of unique, tense situation (think: satanic possession, or pissing off the wrong truck driver, attracting the wrong person, etc.), but in Final Destination, Death works with the great mundane canvas of ordinary life.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 May 2025
  • Early motherhood entraps them—and their children—in a bleak socioeconomic cycle that’s almost impossible to break.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 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 12 Jul. 2025.

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