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n caused especially by reflection
  • one who ghostwrites
  • a red blood cell that has lost its hemoglobin
    • verb
    ghost​ed; ghost​ing; ghosts

    Definition (Entry 2 of 2)

    • transitive ​verb
    • to haunt like a ghost
    • ghostwrite //ghosted the mayor's autobiography
    • informal to cut off all contact with (someone) abruptly and usually without explanation to subject (someone, such as a former romantic partner) to ghosting (see ghosting sense 2) //No one wants to be ghosted, mostly because it sucks to admit that the person you gushed about last week is now pretending you don't exist … — Ellen Scott
    • intransitive ​verb
    • to move silently like a ghost
      to sail quietly in light winds
    Other Words
    Noun
    • ghost​like ˈgōst-ˌlīk adjective
    • ghosty ˈgō-stē adjective
    Synonyms & Antonyms
    Synonyms: Noun
    apparition bogey (also bogie or bogy) familiar spirit hant [dialect] haunt [chiefly dialect] materialization phantasm (also fantasm) phantom poltergeist shade shadow specter (or spectre) spirit spook sprite vision visitant wraith
    Examples
    Noun
    • //a house haunted by ghosts
    • n caused especially by reflection
  • one who ghostwrites
  • a red blood cell that has lost its hemoglobin
    • verb
    ghost​ed; ghost​ing; ghosts

    Definition (Entry 2 of 2)

    • transitive ​verb
    • to haunt like a ghost
    • ghostwrite //ghosted the mayor's autobiography
    • informal to cut off all contact with (someone) abruptly and usually without explanation to subject (someone, such as a former romantic partner) to ghosting (see ghosting sense 2) //No one wants to be ghosted, mostly because it sucks to admit that the person you gushed about last week is now pretending you don't exist … — Ellen Scott
    • intransitive ​verb
    • to move silently like a ghost
      to sail quietly in light winds
    Other Words
    Noun
    • ghost​like ˈgōst-ˌlīk adjective
    • ghosty ˈgō-stē adjective
    Synonyms & Antonyms
    Synonyms: Noun
    apparition bogey (also bogie or bogy) familiar spirit hant [dialect] haunt [chiefly dialect] materialization phantasm (also fantasm) phantom poltergeist shade shadow specter (or spectre) spirit spook sprite vision visitant wraith
    Examples
    Noun
    • //a house haunted by ghosts