ghost

noun

  1. 1

    a mental representation of some haunting experience

    he looked like he had seen a ghost

    it aroused specters from his past

  2. 2

    a suggestion of some quality

    there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone

    he detected a ghost of a smile on her face

  3. 3

    the visible disembodied soul of a dead person

  4. 4

    a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

verb

  1. 1

    write for someone else

    How many books have you ghostwritten so far?

  2. 2

    haunt like a ghost; pursue

    Fear of illness haunts her

  3. 3

    move like a ghost

    The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard

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