I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
community spirit (= wanting to give friendship and support to other people who live in the same community )
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There is great community spirit in the village where I live.
enter into the spirit of the occasion (= join in a social occasion in an eager way )
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People entered into the spirit of the occasion by enjoying a picnic before the outdoor concert.
flagging spirits/energy/morale
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By now the wine had lifted her flagging spirits.
Holy Spirit
in high spirits
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It was a bright sunny day and we set off in high spirits .
indomitable spirit/will/courage etc
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Alice was a woman of indomitable spirit.
in...low spirits
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Terry seems to be in rather low spirits today.
methylated spirits
sent...spirits soaring
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Adam’s smile sent her spirits soaring .
spirit level
surgical spirit
team spirit
the human spirit
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Our capacity for forgiveness is a triumph of the human spirit.
the party spirit (= the way people feel when they are really enjoying a party )
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There’ll be plenty of free champagne to get the party spirit going.
white spirit
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
entrepreneurial
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Men and women are equally gifted with the entrepreneurial spirit .
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But there are signs of blossoming entrepreneurial spirit .
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The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and working in our midst.
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Marks' entrepreneurial spirit was typical of a city that has thrived on its ability to sell.
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An important aspect of the entrepreneurial spirit that all of these young business people illustrate is the value of imagination.
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There's a need for an entrepreneurial spirit .
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I was just ten years old when my entrepreneurial spirit kicked in.
evil
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He healed the sick, raised the dead, exercised authority over the evil spirits and forgave sins.
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Two green glazed lions guarded the gates to keep evil spirits at bay.
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The demonic figures wearing ugly masks and straw and brushwood clothes are intended to scare away evil spirits .
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Ancient evil spirits went by a new name.
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The people made gifts to the ancestors, to keep away evil spirits .
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The evil spirits ascended from her mouth as a flock of blackbirds.
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It's thought the ritual burial was to ward off evil spirits .
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Blake was skeptical, wondering if it were really an evil spirit .
fighting
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After a long time, her fighting spirit gradually revived and she began to think constructively.
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We shall have to match his fighting spirit , and not let our fear overwhelm us before the first blow is struck.
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If Mrs Smith had been nice, Nutty's fighting spirit would have softened.
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He disconcerted her, baffled and enraged her, sparked off her fighting spirit .
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But Joffre thought Lanrezac lacked fighting spirit and dismissed him on 3 September.
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Burke was not in the best of condition and had lost his fighting spirit because of his troubles with Byrne and O'Rourke.
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Stevens's superior speed and technique combined with superb fighting spirit carried him through to the final.
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This is a fitting word for the man who is alive because of his fighting spirit .
free
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He could not remember having ever been in the company of such an exuberantly free spirit .
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Margaret radiated such radical free spirit , such electricity, that I fell directly in love.
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October 20 A free spirit , captured in his own words Jeanson par Jeanson by Rene
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It was a celebration of freedom, free spirits and free enterprise.
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There is no point booking a package holiday - this contains the essentially free spirit of the tack traveller.
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These free spirits were on average ten to fifteen years my senior and old hands in high finance.
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One of your original free spirits , I guess.
good
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Some of the best liberal spirits of the age became Rebecca's closest friends.
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When there were weddings, Albert was in good spirits .
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This boisterous welcome restored the princess's good spirits .
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Silently and quickly, so that the good spirits may not fly away.
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Mr Berkley's good spirits almost made him forget the Doreen affair.
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But he played splendid golf, which at least kept his fans in good spirits .
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Apart from the seclusion and pressure of being watched under a gun, they all seemed in good spirits .
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Such plans would have been difficult to make even if everyone had been in good health and spirits .
great
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I should have confessed everything, as I do now, and appealed to your great generosity of spirit .
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This is not the first time that Rumsfeld's downbeat caution has contrasted sharply with Powell's greater internationalist team spirit .
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We must remember that we are a great nation and that we have great spirit .
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Women, My Only Son, have the great spirits .
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There is pathos to be found in it in abundance, and images of love and great nobility of spirit .
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Internalize the great spirit and you will avoid evil and do the right thing for yourself and those around you.
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Distillery played with great spirit but Crusaders must be kicking themselves for the chances they threw away.
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To Orcs he has become a great hero whose spirit stands beside the gods Gork and Mork in battle.
high
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The high spirits round the tea table had gone.
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The girls go down to the locker room in high spirits , all except Eddie.
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He is in high spirits ....
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Mercutio is in high spirits , teasing Romeo about his love as they prepare to go to the Capulet masked ball.
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The dinner followed, with the group in high spirits .
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Beejay suffers from occasional high spirits himself.
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They were all in high spirits , as they talked about the new scripts.
human
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Addictive disease originates as a disease of the human spirit .
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I could sense the raw and sometimes dangerous expansiveness of the human spirit .
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But the wee winger from Fife bounced back in a way that says much for the survivalist instincts in the human spirit .
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The result is a smoldering tale blending end-of-the-road madness with earthy compassion and the triumphant human spirit .
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Within the human spirit the same processes are present.
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Coleridge insisted, to both the natural world and the human spirit .
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The human spirit , in this estimation, is always on the move, restlessly upwards like climbers on K2.
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She has such integrity, such an ethical, high-minded view of what the human spirit can attain.
independent
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Characteristics such as a strongly independent spirit , a generosity of personality, and an appreciative warmth are assets.
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Now, the 7-year-old Pescadero, Calif., girl is taking her independent spirit to the sky.
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The last Churchill Cabinet was brimming with independent spirits .
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I admired their independent spirit , but I thought the price too high.
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Little goody-two-shoes went the subtext; prim and virtuous, but without adventure, energy, or an independent spirit .
kindred
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The same kindred spirit flows in their veins.
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I was different, to be sure, but he accepted me as a kindred spirit of sorts.
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No doubt she and Zahara had become friends because each recognised a kindred spirit in the other.
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I could also imagine the gentle but resolute Amsale recognizing a kindred spirit in Neil Brown.
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Was there some kindred spirit that linked this Samburu tribesman with a group of walkers from Sheffield?
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The forces of democracy are in essence kindred spirits .
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The point is that crops and weeds are in a sense kindred spirits , with several traits in common.
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She is kept company by kindred spirits , such as Uncle Ben and the Cream of Wheat cook.
new
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His call for a new spirit of experimental investigation was later codified and converted into a more concrete programme by Francis Bacon.
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One reason is the abundance of new flavors of spirits .
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Another achievement was the new spirit and discipline of the side.
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The president spoke of a new sense of responsibility and a new spirit of community.
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All hail the new spirit of East/West friendship which has delivered the Iron Curtain from state-controlled economies.
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The new spirit of meanness soon spread beyond organizational walls.
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Charles understood what had caused her new surge of spirit .
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What a catalogue of redresses can be compiled to bear witness to the new spirit of revival in art!
true
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In the true spirit of empowerment, the company is asking its employees to nominate the recipients.
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Most of the thousands of competitors take part in the true spirit of the games, which is simply that.
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In the true spirit of energy conservation chose a bicycle for his gift.
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I think actually he's in the true spirit of the old ffeatherstonehaugh's.
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In the true spirit of a scandalous soccer star, Gallacher was flamboyant and temperamental on and off the park.
white
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Buy these with the paint; brushes can't be cleaned with white spirit or water.
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Less than half an hour later she cleaned the brush in white spirit and pressed the lid of the tin noiselessly down.
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The mixture of oil and copal was thinned, usually with white spirit .
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If too thick for easy brushing, then the varnish can be thinned with white spirit .
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You will need surgical spirit or white spirit for cleaning the needles.
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Rags and dusters with polish, window-cleaning liquid or white spirit on them should also be removed.
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Wash in white spirit or a proprietary brush cleaner.
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Prime with two to three coats of eggshell, thinning down the first one with white spirit to avoid ridges.
■ NOUN
level
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Tap in place with the club hammer handle and check with a spirit level as work progresses.
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The hinge itself must also be horizontal, using a spirit level .
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Simply line up the shelf in position, using a spirit level , before permanent fixing for a really professional result.
world
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We all went, and a good half came back claiming to have encountered the spirit world .
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Through the body, we can discover the spirit world as a real place.
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Of course, there was great agitation in the spirit world as the Last Days drew nearer.
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In other words, they were painting journeys to the spirit world , not self-portraits.
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He was left with the distinct feeling that he had encountered some one from the spirit world on that early midsummer's morning.
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For the purpose of all art is to mediate between the invisible spirit world and the visible body of nature.
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Besides the relationships which a child has with his extended family are those maintained with the spirit world and the living dead.
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It looks to direct knowledge of the spirit world as the source of the paintings.
■ VERB
break
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They took away his freedom, they broke his spirit , and they ruined his health.
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This night, it breaks her spirit .
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This tumble is not just breaking limbs - it is breaking the spirit .
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Time will break the spirit of any man.
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He could have broken me in two with one hand, but he could not break my spirit .
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Table Tennis: Mason breaks Soviet spirit .
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The rule of the constitution appeared to have been broken in spirit , if not in letter.
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They prefer not to break the beast's spirit with harsh treatment.
capture
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The photograph that best captures the spirit of this book was taken in 1963 at Wembley.
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Seven-year-old Amy Collard captured the spirit of many who watched the space shuttle Challenger disintegrate in the Florida sky.
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This developer's vision and commitment has captured the spirit of the Andalucian craft tradition.
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Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams captures the spirit of the settlement movement.
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Horatio Alger captured this spirit in hundreds of stories.
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Given the constraints of magazine as medium, View Camera none the less captures the spirit , if not the essence.
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Rather, he was a young and fashionable man who was able to capture the spirit of the dawning era.
enter
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Jules, entering into the charioteer spirit , drove standing up and the mare went along at a spanking trot.
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Flagellation and other exotic practices formed part of its creed and Rasputin entered into the spirit of these with enthusiasm.
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Mozart decided to enter into the prevailing spirit of the place.
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Benefit yourself and others and enter into the community spirit for the coming year.
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Knowing who was servant and who mistress, I entered into the spirit of the farce.
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The procedure is very demanding in terms of time and trouble for the inspectors who enter wholly into the spirit of what is required.
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In most you will find intact the bones of Easter islanders who entered their spirit world centuries past.
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A good collie enters into the spirit of the hunt, up to a point.
fight
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Fortunately, though, we had a fighting spirit which helped us pull through.
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Although these patients usually have astonishingly good morale and fighting spirit , everything humanely possible should be done to keep it up.
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On another level, perhaps he was fighting a wayward spirit he could not control.
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With so many enemies, we need a great deal of fighting spirit .
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Do you suppose he has to carry on a campaign of propaganda to get his people into fighting spirit ?
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Though short in stature, Genda was endowed with a strong fighting spirit which was reflected in his hawk-like countenance.
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So did Fernand Braudeland so did his fighting spirit .
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In fighting spirit , North and South were doubtless about equal.
keep
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However, Madeleine kept up a spirit of personal participation and deep involvement in her own healing.
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Two green glazed lions guarded the gates to keep evil spirits at bay.
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I told Tansy that she must keep her spirits up, that Rose might be needing her.
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It was essential, I said, that we kept a team spirit alive.
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During the war years, it helped keep our spirits up and we need it again now.
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He, more than anyone else, had kept their spirits at high tide.
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She must keep spirit and flesh wedded.
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She is kept company by kindred spirits , such as Uncle Ben and the Cream of Wheat cook.
lift
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The £10,000 scheme has lifted spirits at the school which is close to imported coal mountains at Gladstone Dock.
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Over eight million people came to admire this new concept of an environment where everything was intended to lift the spirits .
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How quickly he was able to lie, how baldly, quick and bald, and it lifted his spirit .
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The champagne, the first sips of which had lifted her spirits , was after a glassful having the opposite effect.
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Most of their stuff is reruns, things that lift your spirits .
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It lifted the spirits , caused conversation, got the party going.
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They finished with a healthy kick though, which seemed to lift their spirits .
raise
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But first-hand confirmation did nothing to raise her spirits .
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These drugs can raise spirits enough to permit daily functioning and raise the motivation capacity for psychotherapy, too!
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And then, on the way home, something happened which raised their spirits almost to the point of singing.
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The greatest magicians are those who can raise dead spirits .
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Although it was so hot the sky was grey and low, not an evening to raise the spirits .
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Many of the men raised their spirits by finding ways to entertain themselves.
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Some one outside the stage door as she left had asked for her autograph and that had raised her spirits considerably.
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The election of Franklin Roosevelt in November did not raise his spirits .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a kindred spirit
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Certainly a kindred spirit lives on under the front-hinged bonnet.
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He had realised as soon as he had employed Michael that he had found himself a kindred spirit.
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I could also imagine the gentle but resolute Amsale recognizing a kindred spirit in Neil Brown.
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I was different, to be sure, but he accepted me as a kindred spirit of sorts.
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In the then president, Sir Hugh Casson, he found a kindred spirit.
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Juliet was grateful to find a kindred spirit among all these wealthy public-school-educated socialites.
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No doubt she and Zahara had become friends because each recognised a kindred spirit in the other.
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She recognised him as a kindred spirit, with the same happy-go-lucky, questing attitude to life which she herself possessed.
break sb's spirit
enter into the spirit of it/things
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Mercer was entering into the spirit of things, Bambi also but more coolly.
fighting spirit
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I admire the team's fighting spirit.
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After a long time, her fighting spirit gradually revived and she began to think constructively.
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Although these patients usually have astonishingly good morale and fighting spirit, everything humanely possible should be done to keep it up.
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Do you suppose he has to carry on a campaign of propaganda to get his people into fighting spirit?
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Fortunately, though, we had a fighting spirit which helped us pull through.
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On the battlefield armament was still much less important than discipline and fighting spirit.
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She also has a fighting spirit.
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We shall have to match his fighting spirit, and not let our fear overwhelm us before the first blow is struck.
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With so many enemies, we need a great deal of fighting spirit.
free spirit
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He could not remember having ever been in the company of such an exuberantly free spirit.
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It was a celebration of freedom, free spirits and free enterprise.
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Margaret radiated such radical free spirit, such electricity, that I fell directly in love.
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October 20 A free spirit, captured in his own words Jeanson par Jeanson by Rene
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One of your original free spirits, I guess.
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There is no point booking a package holiday - this contains the essentially free spirit of the tack traveller.
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These free spirits were on average ten to fifteen years my senior and old hands in high finance.
high spirits
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It was the last day of term and everyone was in high spirits.
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Peter could not hide his high spirits.
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They didn't mean to cause any damage - it was just high spirits.
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As they went down, the two married ladies were in high spirits.
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Gone were the high spirits of the first hours of our escape.
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Her high spirits are generally contagious.
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In high spirits, his father was talking about the immense advances made in forensic science in recent years.
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It was age, youthful high spirits, they were very young, like puppies really.
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Prue told George that Dawn Allenby was in high spirits because an admirer had sent her flowers.
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The dinner followed, with the group in high spirits.
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The girls go down to the locker room in high spirits, all except Eddie.
keep your spirits/strength/morale etc up
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Crusty Bill boasts he's on a spicy vegetarian diet to keep his strength up for love.
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During the war years, it helped keep our spirits up and we need it again now.
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He had a strong sense of humour, and kept his spirits up.
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I had to keep my strength up.
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I told Tansy that she must keep her spirits up, that Rose might be needing her.
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She ate a little to keep her strength up.
lift sb's spirits
sense/spirit of adventure
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A secret always buoyed her up, gave her a sense of adventure .
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A sense of adventure , perhaps?
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Dole can opt for some one out of the blue, making a bold stroke and hoping to demonstrate a spirit of adventure .
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It is like they embody the spirit of adventure , that sense of infinite newness.
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The atmosphere of the room was so different from any he had ever breathed that self-consciousness vanished in the sense of adventure .
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The excitement gradually left them and the boyish sense of adventure seeped slowly away.
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The sense of adventure felt by the pioneers of flight still remains with those who carry on the tradition of ballooning today.
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We should strive for the same sense of adventure .
sweet-spirited/tough-spirited/rebellious-spirited etc
the moving spirit
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Rittall is regarded as the moving spirit behind the project.
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That bull had been the moving spirit of the herd, a figure rather of mythic than of material dimension.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Burning the bodies is supposed to convince the spirits of the dead to go to the next world.
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Firecrackers are lit to scare off evil spirits.
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Gere's actions may not actually be illegal, but they have violated the spirit of the law.
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I am sure that, given the great community spirit here, the fund-raisers will not give up.
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In Japan people believe that the spirits of the dead return to visit the earth every summer during the Obon festival.
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My grandparents used to wear charms to protect themselves against evil spirits.
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She never once thought of giving up. Everyone admired her fighting spirit .
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The crew enjoy working together and have developed an excellent team spirit .
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The fact that they reached the semi-final is a reflection of their spirit and commitment.
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The hours of interrogations and beatings were designed to break his spirit .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Again, the quality of the spirit finally collected depends upon the knowledge skill and experience of the stillman.
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All Annamese peasants - and that's about eighty percent of the population worship invisible spirits.
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Excellent schools and classrooms are clearly distinguishable by the spirit of community that pervades all they do.
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Indeed, the key question is whether the organization serves or squashes the human spirit .
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On the other hand, any name can work if you have the right spirit .
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Then under the indifferent sky his spirit left the body with its ripped flesh, infections, its weak and damaged nature.
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They are usually distilled from barley malt cured with peat, giving the spirit a smoky flavour.
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This boisterous welcome restored the princess's good spirits.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
away
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They just disappeared, as if they'd popped into trap doors and been spirited away .
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Almost immediately afterward, Rapunzel was spirited away by the witch.
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She might find herself not being carried down to London but spirited away to distant unknown suburbs such as Hendon and Colindale.
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A managing director won points when he spirited away a popular trainee from other managing directors.
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She had been spirited away by the Poison Dwarf.
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There is no hard evidence of files spirited away and even if they were, nobody knows whether they contain anything sinister.
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Anyone would do as long as he was able to explain how that much money could be spirited away in under three months.
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She clung to Jacob's arm, saw him spirited away on a tide of compliments.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a kindred spirit
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Certainly a kindred spirit lives on under the front-hinged bonnet.
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He had realised as soon as he had employed Michael that he had found himself a kindred spirit.
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I could also imagine the gentle but resolute Amsale recognizing a kindred spirit in Neil Brown.
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I was different, to be sure, but he accepted me as a kindred spirit of sorts.
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In the then president, Sir Hugh Casson, he found a kindred spirit.
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Juliet was grateful to find a kindred spirit among all these wealthy public-school-educated socialites.
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No doubt she and Zahara had become friends because each recognised a kindred spirit in the other.
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She recognised him as a kindred spirit, with the same happy-go-lucky, questing attitude to life which she herself possessed.
free spirit
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He could not remember having ever been in the company of such an exuberantly free spirit.
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It was a celebration of freedom, free spirits and free enterprise.
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Margaret radiated such radical free spirit, such electricity, that I fell directly in love.
▪
October 20 A free spirit, captured in his own words Jeanson par Jeanson by Rene
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One of your original free spirits, I guess.
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There is no point booking a package holiday - this contains the essentially free spirit of the tack traveller.
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These free spirits were on average ten to fifteen years my senior and old hands in high finance.
high spirits
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It was the last day of term and everyone was in high spirits.
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Peter could not hide his high spirits.
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They didn't mean to cause any damage - it was just high spirits.
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As they went down, the two married ladies were in high spirits.
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Gone were the high spirits of the first hours of our escape.
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Her high spirits are generally contagious.
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In high spirits, his father was talking about the immense advances made in forensic science in recent years.
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It was age, youthful high spirits, they were very young, like puppies really.
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Prue told George that Dawn Allenby was in high spirits because an admirer had sent her flowers.
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The dinner followed, with the group in high spirits.
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The girls go down to the locker room in high spirits, all except Eddie.
sense/spirit of adventure
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A secret always buoyed her up, gave her a sense of adventure .
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A sense of adventure , perhaps?
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Dole can opt for some one out of the blue, making a bold stroke and hoping to demonstrate a spirit of adventure .
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It is like they embody the spirit of adventure , that sense of infinite newness.
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The atmosphere of the room was so different from any he had ever breathed that self-consciousness vanished in the sense of adventure .
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The excitement gradually left them and the boyish sense of adventure seeped slowly away.
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The sense of adventure felt by the pioneers of flight still remains with those who carry on the tradition of ballooning today.
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We should strive for the same sense of adventure .
sweet-spirited/tough-spirited/rebellious-spirited etc
the moving spirit
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Rittall is regarded as the moving spirit behind the project.
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That bull had been the moving spirit of the herd, a figure rather of mythic than of material dimension.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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She had been spirited away by the Poison Dwarf.
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She might find herself not being carried down to London but spirited away to distant unknown suburbs such as Hendon and Colindale.