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Antonyms for ghost
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ghostnoun
An understudy.
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suggestion, hint, ghostwriter, phantom, apparition, haint, spectre, spark, glimmer, spirit, glimmering, spook, revenant, specter, glimpse, inkling, soul, wraithghostnoun
A covert (and deniable) agent.
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spectre, spook, glimmer, spark, haint, soul, wraith, revenant, suggestion, phantom, apparition, hint, inkling, ghostwriter, specter, glimmering, glimpse, spiritghostnoun
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echoghostnoun
To haunt.
Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. Spenser
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specter, spirit, spark, glimpse, spook, suggestion, phantom, apparition, ghostwriter, revenant, haint, soul, inkling, glimmering, wraith, spectre, glimmer, hintghostnoun
To ghostwrite.
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specter, ghostwriter, spectre, revenant, spook, suggestion, glimmer, apparition, soul, hint, glimpse, glimmering, inkling, haint, spark, phantom, wraith, spiritghostnoun
to copy a file or hard drive image.
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specter, inkling, spook, spectre, soul, glimmering, revenant, apparition, wraith, hint, glimmer, haint, spirit, ghostwriter, spark, suggestion, phantom, glimpseghostnoun
A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
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glimmering, wraith, haint, ghostwriter, spook, revenant, spectre, phantom, apparition, specter, spirit, hint, glimmer, spark, inkling, glimpse, suggestion, soulghostnoun
An unwanted image similar to and overlapping or adjacent to the main one on a television screen, caused by the transmitted image being received both directly and via reflection.
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apparition, wraith, spook, soul, glimmering, spark, inkling, specter, ghostwriter, revenant, suggestion, haint, glimpse, spirit, spectre, glimmer, hint, phantomghostnoun
A ghostwriter.
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spectre, revenant, suggestion, spook, soul, spark, haint, ghostwriter, glimmer, phantom, glimpse, hint, specter, wraith, spirit, inkling, glimmering, apparitionghostnoun
A nature spirit, ancestor or house spirit (see brownie ) revered in Heathenry.
Before all else, we speak to the land to the ghosts and spirits of this place known to many as pixies, fairies, brownies, or elfs. (Math Jones)
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glimmer, wraith, suggestion, spirit, spectre, specter, hint, spook, revenant, glimpse, haint, apparition, soul, phantom, glimmering, ghostwriter, inkling, sparkghostnoun
An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.
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soul, revenant, spirit, inkling, apparition, haint, ghostwriter, wraith, hint, glimmer, spook, glimmering, glimpse, specter, phantom, suggestion, spectre, sparkghostnoun
an image of a file or hard disk.
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specter, glimpse, spark, glimmer, soul, suggestion, spirit, revenant, phantom, glimmering, haint, wraith, ghostwriter, inkling, spook, spectre, hint, apparition
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ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectrenoun
a mental representation of some haunting experience
"he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
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phantasma, phantom, wraith, shade, shadowiness, shadiness, touch, weirdo, weirdy, nuance, weirdie, specter, tincture, ghostwriter, tint, nicety, apparition, trace, phantasm, tad, spectre, spook, subtlety, tone, creep, fantasm, refinementghostwriter, ghostnoun
a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
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ghostwriter, trace, touch, shade, specter, spook, wraith, spectreghostnoun
the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
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ghostwriter, trace, touch, shade, specter, spook, wraith, spectretouch, trace, ghostverb
a suggestion of some quality
"there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"
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ghostwriter, jot, wraith, cutaneous senses, shade, touch sensation, tactual sensation, touch modality, touching, specter, shadow, signature, sense of touch, skin senses, tincture, soupcon, touch, speck, hint, trace, feeling, pinch, vestige, spectre, spook, mite, tinge, tracing, spot, tactile sensation, contact, suggestionghostverb
move like a ghost
"The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"
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ghostwrite, obsess, haunthaunt, obsess, ghostverb
haunt like a ghost; pursue
"Fear of illness haunts her"
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frequent, ghostwrite, stalk, obsess, hauntghost, ghostwriteverb
write for someone else
"How many books have you ghostwritten so far?"
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ghostwrite, obsess, haunt
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
ghost
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Haematology Erythrocyte ghost, ghost cell
How to use ghost in a sentence?
I stalk my prison like my own ghost...
Lake Tahoe ski resorts are using snow blowers to help fight flames from the Caldor FireSouth Lake Tahoe, normally bustling with vacationers, was a gray ghost town Tuesday, with empty parking lots, closed roads and shuttered businesses as the fire's thick smoke hovered over the area.Evacuated residents should expect to stay out of their homes for the next couple of days.
More is unknown about ghost guns than known, law enforcement is increasingly having to familiarize themselves with them, but it's not hit the public consciousness yet that there is a legal, untraceable firearm out there that can be ordered in parts online and assembled at home.
These ghost teachers receive taxpayer-funded salaries, health benefits and pensions, yet they may never return to the classroom or engage in actual teaching, this should not be allowed or tolerated because it is a blatant misuse of taxpayer dollars and drains money and resources away from our classrooms and our students.
Lake Tahoe ski resorts are using snow blowers to help fight flames from the Caldor FireSouth Lake Tahoe, normally bustling with vacationers, was a gray ghost town this week, with empty parking lots, closed roads and shuttered businesses as the fire's thick smoke hovered over the area.Evacuated residents should expect to stay out of their homes for the next couple of days.
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