# spiriting

Pronunciation: US say "SPIR-i-ting" /ˈspɪɹɪtɪŋ/; UK say "SPI-ri-ting" /ˈspɪɹɪtɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of spirit. — present participle and gerund of spirit
   - Simple: Present participle and gerund of spirit. Use this -ing form for an action happening now or as a noun.
   - _The agents were spiriting the witness to a secret location._
   - _Spiriting his savings out of the country took months of planning._

## Noun

2. The act of inspiring someone; the arousing of energy, courage, or creative thought.
   - Simple: The act of filling someone with energy, courage, or new ideas.
   - _The captain's speech provided a spiriting that revived the weary volunteers._
   - _The poet sat at her desk all night waiting for some spiriting from the muse, but the page stayed blank._
3. The action or activity of a spirit or ghost. *(literary)*
   - Simple: The way a ghost or spirit acts, moves, or makes things happen.
   - _Locals blamed the spiriting away of the lighthouse keeper on the ghosts said to haunt the cove._
   - _She woke to the eerie spiriting of something unseen drifting through the hall._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/spiriting (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).