ghost

ghost has 13 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. The spirit; the soul of man.
• n.. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
• n.. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.
• n.. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
• v. i.. To die; to expire.
• v. t.. To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.
• n.. a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
• n.. a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"
• n.. the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
• n.. a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
• v.. write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?"
• v.. haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her"