spirit away

Definitions

1. 1

   To remove without anyone's noticing.

   • The paintings were spirited away under cover of darkness.
   • Twice my tent was turned inside out in my absence, once my clothes were spirited away while I was bathing, and the night before we broke up the camp I was within an ace of being murdered.
2. 2

   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.

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