spiriting

Pluralspiritings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of spirit. Use this -ing form for an action happening now or as a noun.

   They were spiriting the children to safety before the storm hit.

   Spiriting the cash away, the thief slipped out the back door.

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2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The act of filling someone with energy, courage, or new ideas.

   Her words were a kind of spiriting that pushed the whole team forward.

   The crowd felt a sudden spiriting as the first notes of music began.

   Similarinspiration, encouragement, boost

   Oppositediscouragement

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3. 3
   nounliteraryuncountable

   The way a ghost or spirit acts, moves, or makes things happen.

   In the story, a ghost's spiriting made the candles go out one by one.

   Villagers blamed the rattling doors on the spiriting of the restless dead.

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