Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to spirit
Participle: spirited
Gerund: spiriting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | spirit |
| you | spirit |
| he;she;it | spirits |
| we | spirit |
| you | spirit |
| they | spirit |
Perfect
| I | have spirited |
| you | have spirited |
| he;she;it | has spirited |
| we | have spirited |
| you | have spirited |
| they | have spirited |
Past
| I | spirited |
| you | spirited |
| he;she;it | spirited |
| we | spirited |
| you | spirited |
| they | spirited |
Pluperfect
| I | had spirited |
| you | had spirited |
| he;she;it | had spirited |
| we | had spirited |
| you | had spirited |
| they | had spirited |
Future
| I | will spirit |
| you | will spirit |
| he;she;it | will spirit |
| we | will spirit |
| you | will spirit |
| they | will spirit |
Future Perfect
| I | will have spirited |
| you | will have spirited |
| he;she;it | will have spirited |
| we | will have spirited |
| you | will have spirited |
| they | will have spirited |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | spirit |
| you | spirit |
| he;she;it | spirit |
| we | spirit |
| you | spirit |
| they | spirit |
Perfect
| I | have spirited |
| you | have spirited |
| he;she;it | have spirited |
| we | have spirited |
| you | have spirited |
| they | have spirited |
Imperfect
| I | spirited |
| you | spirited |
| he;she;it | spirited |
| we | spirited |
| you | spirited |
| they | spirited |
Pluperfect
| I | had spirited |
| you | had spirited |
| he;she;it | had spirited |
| we | had spirited |
| you | had spirited |
| they | had spirited |
Conditional
Present
| I | would spirit |
| you | would spirit |
| he;she;it | would spirit |
| we | would spirit |
| you | would spirit |
| they | would spirit |
Perfect
| I | would have spirited |
| you | would have spirited |
| he;she;it | would have spirited |
| we | would have spirited |
| you | would have spirited |
| they | would have spirited |
Imperative
| you | spirit |
| we | Let's spirit |
| you | spirit |
Verbs conjugated like 'spirit'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'spirit'
spirt,
sprit,
despirit,
dispirit,
inspirit,
shirt,
skirt,
smirt,
snirt,
spight,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.?
3. Latin spīrō
4. Proto-Indo-European *-tus
5. Proto-Italic *-tus
6. Latin -tus
7. Latin spīritus
8. Old French espiritbor.
9. Middle English spirit
10. English spirit
11. From Middle English spirit, from Old French espirit (“spirit”), from Latin spīritus (“breath; spirit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys- (“to blow, breathe”). Compare inspire, respire, transpire, all ultimately from Latin spīrō (“to breathe, blow, respire”). In this sense, displaced native Middle English gast (from Old English gāst), whence modern English ghost. Doublet of spiritus, spirytus, sprite, spright, and esprit.
Sample Sentences
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I felt as if I had been spirited into some castle of felicity. [1835, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Pencillings by the Way:]
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When I was young and full of grace, I sprited a rattlesnake.
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When I was young, a fever fell my spirit; I will not tell.
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You're on your honor not to tell. [1986 July 28, R.E.M., “I Believe”, in Lifes Rich Pageant:]
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God does not make an appearance, but the Devil (Ms. Pinal) emphatically does: first in the guise of a schoolgirl who tries to lure Simon down with the sight of her shapely legs; then as a bearded but blatantly female Jesus carrying a lamb; and finally as a stylishly coiffed woman who succeeds in spiriting Simon off, by means of a jet, to a Manhattan discotheque — Buñuel’s persuasive idea of hell. [2009 February 8, Dave Kehr, “Buñuel at His Wildest, in Circulation Again”, in New York Times:]
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Civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men.
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[H]e left behind many Officers and private Men, vvho novv ſpirit-up and aſſiſt thoſe obſtinate People to continue in their Rebellion. [1714 February, [Jonathan Swift], The Publick Spirit of the Whigs: Set forth in Their Generous Encouragement of the Author of the Crisis: […], London: […] [John Barber] for John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 39:]