"spirit away" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈspɪɹ.ɪt əˌweɪ/ Audio: en-us-spirit away.ogg [US], en-au-spirit away.ogg [Australia] Forms: spirits away [present, singular, third-person], spiriting away [participle, present], spirited away [participle, past], spirited away [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} spirit away (third-person singular simple present spirits away, present participle spiriting away, simple past and past participle spirited away)
  1. (transitive) To remove without anyone's noticing. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-spirit_away-en-verb-Scztegb8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (away) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (away): 52 48
  2. (transitive) To carry off through the agency of a spirit or through some magical means. Tags: transitive Translations (to spirit away): 偷走 (tōuzǒu) (Chinese Mandarin), trylle væk (Danish), viedä salaa (Finnish), kadota jäljettömiin (Finnish), eltüntet (Hungarian), far sparire nel nulla (Italian), far svanire nel nulla (Italian), 유괴하다 (yugoehada) (Korean), чтобы исчезнуть в воздухе (štoby isčeznutʹ v vozduxe) (Russian), умыкать (umykatʹ) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-spirit_away-en-verb-fJaoDYfp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (away) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (away): 52 48 Disambiguation of 'to spirit away': 0 100

Inflected forms

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        "(transitive) To carry off through the agency of a spirit or through some magical means."
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      "sense": "to spirit away",
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      "sense": "to spirit away",
      "word": "kadota jäljettömiin"
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      "sense": "to spirit away",
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      "sense": "to spirit away",
      "word": "far sparire nel nulla"
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      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to spirit away",
      "word": "far svanire nel nulla"
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      "sense": "to spirit away",
      "word": "유괴하다"
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      "sense": "to spirit away",
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