GHOST

• (noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience

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

  synonyms : shade , specter , spectre , spook , wraith

• (noun) a suggestion of some quality

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

  synonyms : touch , trace

• (noun) the visible disembodied soul of a dead person

• (noun) a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

  synonyms : ghostwriter

• (verb) write for someone else

  "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?"

  synonyms : ghostwrite

• (verb) haunt like a ghost; pursue

  "Fear of illness haunts her"

  synonyms : haunt , obsess

• (verb) move like a ghost

  "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"

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