ghost
• noun 1 an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear to the living. 2 a faint trace: the ghost of a smile. 3 a faint secondary image produced by a fault in an optical system or on a cathode ray screen. • verb act as ghost writer of. — PHRASES give up the ghost die or stop functioning. — ORIGIN Old English, spirit, soul .
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