SPIRITED (AWAY OR OFF) Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

spirited (away or off)

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Definition of spirited (away or off)

past tense of spirit (away or off)

as in fastened (on)

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Royce Keys, Bronco Nima and Lucien Price set Jey and Jimmy Usos’ car on fire and, last week, kidnapped Solo Sikoa before dropping him off near a beach.

— Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
The 84-year-old woman’s family was sent multiple ransom notes when Nancy was first kidnapped in early 2026, with two of those being released in full by police in July.

— Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 29 Sep. 2026

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Italian prosecutors maintained that members of Egypt’s security services abducted, detained, tortured and killed Regeni, while Egyptian authorities repeatedly denied state involvement and disputed the findings of the Italian investigation.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026
One of the albums in the pair’s collection is filled with photographs (of extraordinary, poignant provenance) from the nineteen-forties and fifties of women who, as children, had been abducted and forced into prostitution.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2026

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My brother and sister-in-law were nice enough to rent me a room in their house, which is very close to work.

— Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2026
In other words, based on these figures, someone who decides to rent a 50-square-meter apartment in the capital will be spending about $15,894 (13,980 euros) a year on housing, which amounts to nearly half of the average salary.

— Pau Mosquera, CNN Money, 27 Sep. 2026

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For the difficult and dangerous business of selling secrets—the challenge of finding a buyer, the constant fear of getting betrayed or entrapped—BlackNet would do what eBay did for the garage sale.

— Finn Brunton, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026
Robert is unwittingly entrapped, and has absconded with something mob bigwig Lombardi wants revenge for.

— Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026

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