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spook

DEFINITIONS OF: spook

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n a mental representation of some haunting experience

Synonyms:
ghost, shade, specter, spectre, wraith
Type of:
apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow
something existing in perception only

n someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

Synonyms:
creep, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy
Type of:
disagreeable person, unpleasant person
a person who is not pleasant or agreeable

v frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action

“The noise spooked the horse”
Type of:
affright, fright, frighten, scare
cause fear in
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