SPIRIT (AWAY OR OFF) Synonyms: 59 Similar and Opposite Words

spirit (away or off)

verb

Definition of spirit (away or off)

as in to fasten (on)

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Media narrative predicting blue wave in key battleground state not meshing with local Republicans.

— , FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Because none of that seemed to mesh in the winter, the spring, the summer or the fall, given hindsight.

— Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of mesh

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Last month, Israel agreed to release five civilians detained by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon in exchange for Lebanon's help in searching for the bodies of Lebanese Jewish leaders abducted and killed in the 1980s, during Lebanon’s civil war.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026
Two children, who police say were abducted by the father in Inkster on Wednesday, have been found in Norfolk, Ohio.

— DeJanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of abduct

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Earlier this summer, a gang had massacred at least 47 residents and kidnapped dozens more in the town of Kenscoff, on the main southern route out of the capital.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
Determined to win her back, Ralph devises a crazy plan involving kidnapping the former child star of his favorite Christmas movie.

— Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of kidnap

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One fascination of this brave book—brave in its disclosures but more so in its demands, its spiritual rigor, and its ardent intellectualism—lies in watching the eloquent, intelligent sufferer steadily entrapping herself.

— James Wood, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
How else could that show have ended, the way people were being entrapped, and, certainly, with the dubious legality of it all?

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of entrap

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