ghost  /goʊst/

noun

1. a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"

synset: ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre

2. a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

synset: ghostwriter, ghost

3. the visible disembodied soul of a dead person

synset: ghost

4. a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"

synset: touch, trace, ghost

verb

1. move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"

synset: ghost

2. haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her"

synset: haunt, obsess, ghost

3. write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?"

synset: ghost, ghostwrite

Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

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