Main entry: wraith, ghost, shade, specter, spectre, spook
Definition: a mental representation of some haunting experience
Usage: he looked like he had seen a ghost; it aroused specters from his past
Main entry: ghost, touch, trace
Definition: a suggestion of some quality
Usage: there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone; he detected a ghost of a smile on her face
Main entry: ghost
Definition: the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
Main entry: ghost, ghostwriter
Definition: a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
Main entry: ghost, ghostwrite
Definition: write for someone else
Usage: How many books have you ghostwritten so far?
Main entry: obsess, ghost, haunt
Definition: haunt like a ghost; pursue
Usage: Fear of illness haunts her
Main entry: ghost
Definition: move like a ghost
Usage: The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard