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spirit away
verb as in abduct
verb as in kidnap
verb as in seize
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verb as in snatch
verb as in steal
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Example Sentences
Or will this theft join the ranks of unsolved art heists, alongside the 1990 robbery that spirited away an estimated $500 million of paintings and sketches from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston?
Instead of shutting their doors and pouring some pre-Christian version of holy water around their houses to keep the spirits away, people would often do the exact opposite.
They moved forward, relentlessly, ever bent, following a hulking machine with a conveyor belt that spirited away their fruit.
Agents intercepted text messages in which Facey and Sanchez talked about using a private plane to spirit away an underling who had narrowly avoided arrest in Anchorage, prosecutors wrote in the bail motion.
Later on the day it appeared, refuse collectors arrived to spirit away the fridge-freezer.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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