ghost has definitions from the fields of religion,writing
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[ noun ] a mental representation of some haunting experience

Examples

"he looked like he had seen a ghost" "it aroused specters from his past"

Used in print

(Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)

The argument against this last approach is comparable_to that which rejects stories about hoop_snakes , about snakes that break themselves into many pieces and join up again , or even of ghosts that chase people out of graveyards ; the mere piling_up of testimony does not prove , to the scientific mind , the existence of hoop_snakes , joint_snakes , or ghosts .

The argument against this last approach is comparable_to that which rejects stories about hoop_snakes , about snakes that break themselves into many pieces and join up again , or even of ghosts that chase people out of graveyards ; the mere piling_up of testimony does not prove , to the scientific mind , the existence of hoop_snakes , joint_snakes , or ghosts .

Related terms

apparition spook

2
[ verb ] move like a ghost

Examples

"The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"

Used in print

(Todhunter Ballard, The Night Riders....)

They slid through the wicket in the big gate , ghosted across the dark ground .

Related terms

travel

3
[ noun ] (writing) a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

Synonyms

ghostwriter

Related terms

writer

4
[ verb ] (writing) write for someone else

Synonyms

ghostwrite

Examples

"How many books have you ghostwritten so far?"

Related terms

author writing

5
[ verb ] haunt like a ghost; pursue

Synonyms

haunt obsess

Examples

"Fear of illness haunts her"

Related terms

preoccupy preoccupy

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[ noun ] (religion) the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
7
[ noun ] a suggestion of some quality

Synonyms

touch trace

Examples

"there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone" "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"

Related terms

suggestion

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