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ghost

Nouns

• (n) a mental representation of some haunting experience
  • he looked like he had seen a ghost
  • it aroused specters from his past
  specter, wraith, spectre, spook, shade,
• (n) a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else ghostwriter,
• (n) the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
• (n) a suggestion of some quality
  • there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone
  • he detected a ghost of a smile on her face
  touch, trace,

Verbs

• (v) move like a ghost
  • The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard
• (v) haunt like a ghost; pursue
  • Fear of illness haunts her
  obsess, haunt,
• (v) write for someone else
  • How many books have you ghostwritten so far?
  ghostwrite,

Synonyms

specter wraith spectre spook shade ghostwriter obsess haunt ghostwrite touch trace

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