PREP
- in ~
- I will be with you in spirit
VERB + SPIRIT
- keep up, lift, raise
- We sang songs to keep our spirits up
- revive
- break, dampen
- A string of defeats has failed to dampen the team's spirits
PHRASES
- in good/high/low/poor, etc. spirits
- She isn't in the best of spirits today
ADJ
- guiding, leading, moving
- She was a guiding spirit in primary education
- generous
- grudging, mean
- brave, proud
- free, independent
- kindred
- He found kindred spirits in the peace movement
ADJ
- great, tremendous
- adventurous, competitive, fighting, indomitable, pioneer/pioneering
VERB + SPIRIT
- be full of, have
- She has plenty of fighting spirit
- display, show
- break
PREP
- with ~
- He sang with great spirit
PHRASES
- broken in spirit
- They tortured him until he was broken in spirit
ADJ
- community, party, public, team
VERB + SPIRIT
- have
- develop, foster, promote
ADJ
- right
- He's got the right spirit!
- essential, genuine, true
- carefree
- democratic, revolutionary
- entrepreneurial
- festive, Christmas
PREP
- in a ~ of
- Both sides have come together in a spirit of goodwill
- ~ of
- a spirit of adventure
PHRASES
- in the right/wrong spirit, the spirit of the age/times
VERB + SPIRIT
- obey
- be/go against, be contrary to
PHRASES
- the spirit of the law
- The referee should try to obey the spirit as well as the letter of the law
ADJ
- ancestral
- evil, malevolent
- restless
- Owls were believed to be restless spirits who had returned to earth
VERB + SPIRIT
- conjure up, contact, invoke, summon (up)
- exorcise, ward off
- She slept with a cross under the pillow to ward off evil spirits
- be possessed by
SPIRIT + VERB
- live on
- Many people believe the spirit lives on after death
QUANT
- measure
- a single measure of spirits