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1. A mental representation of some haunting experience
   "he looked like he had seen a ghost";
   - shade, spook, wraith, specter [US], spectre [Brit, Cdn]
    
2. A writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
   - ghostwriter
    
3. The visible disembodied soul of a dead person
    
4. A suggestion of some quality
   "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face";
   - touch, trace
    
5. A faint false image formed in an optical or display device, e.g. by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses

1. Move like a ghost
   "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"
    
2. Haunt like a ghost; pursue
   - haunt, obsess
    
3. Write for someone else
   - ghostwrite

Derived forms: ghosted, ghosting, ghosts

Type of: apparition, author, fantasm, go, locomote, move, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, preoccupy, proffer, proposition, psyche, shadow, soul, suggestion, travel, writer

Encyclopedia: Ghost, Interrupted