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Noun ghost has 4 senses

ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre - a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
--₁ is a kind of apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, shadow

Derived form: verb ghost₂
ghostwriter, ghost - a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
--₂ is a kind of writer, author

Derived form: verb ghost₃
ghost - the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
--₃ is a kind of soul, psyche
--₃ has particulars: poltergeist; revenant
Derived form: verb ghost₁
touch, trace, ghost - a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"
--₄ is a kind of suggestion, proposition, proffer

Verb ghost has 3 senses

ghost - move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"
--₁ is one way to travel, go, move, locomote

Derived form: noun ghost₃
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
haunt, obsess, ghost - haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her"
--₂ is one way to preoccupy

Derived form: noun ghost₁
Sample sentence:
The good news will ghost her
ghost, ghostwrite - write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?"
--₃ is one way to author

Derived form: noun ghost₂
Sample sentence:
Did he ghost his major works over a short period of time?