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to ghost

to ghost

1 7.7
To stay in your mind as a painful or unwanted memory
  • verb
  • /ɡoʊst/
translation icon : perseguir
  • This time he'd ghosted back to the world he'd lost at the very moment it was lost!
  • ghosted across his face

Examples

  • The memory of her childhood home always ghosts through my mind when I visit the old neighborhood.

  • After his unexpected departure, the sadness ghosted around me, making it hard to move on.

  • Even years later, the haunting thoughts of that day still ghost him, keeping him awake at night.

Synonyms

to obsess
vsto ghost
304 5.5

To think about something so much that it makes you worried

is a persistent haunting presence that stays in the mind without fully dominating it

Antonyms

to forget
∞ 1.0

Not remember something you should remember

to dismiss
332 3.0

To refuse to accept an idea or claim

Idioms

to give up the ghost
  • Informal
4 8.1

To die or stop working after a long time of problems

to feel like a ghost
1 8.4

To seem invisible because other people ignore you

as white as a ghost
  • Informal
1 5.0

Very pale from fear, shock, or illness

Great Caesar's ghost
  • Archaic
9.9

A short phrase showing surprise or disbelief

to yield up the ghost
  • Archaic
9.8

To stop working or to die after a long time of getting worse

Compounds

Holy Ghost
  • Formal
33 6.7

A spirit of God in Christian belief that guides and comforts people

ghost town
31 4.9

A town with no people because everyone left, often once lively

ghost story
31 3.2

A story about ghosts that tries to scare or entertain

ghost dance
  • Literature
1 9.8

A religious dance from the late 1800s in which Native American people try to talk with spirits and find hope

ghost bullet
  • Specialized
9.9

A bullet that leaves almost no sign to show where it came from

ghost driver
  • Specialized
8.9

A person or system that controls a car when no one can be seen inside

ghost gum
  • Australian
8.8

A small or medium tree from Australia and Tasmania with smooth pale bark that peels in strips

ghost home
8.3

A house that feels empty and full of old memories

ghost weed
  • US
9.9

A plant with bright white flower clusters and poisonous milky sap

ghost word
  • Specialized
9.9

A word that enters a language because of a mistake, like a misprint, and has no real use

How Persistent

to obsess
304 5.5
to ghost
1 7.7
to linger
207 3.7
to come to mind
120 3.0

Surface Forms

ghost infinitive
ghosted past
ghosted past participle
ghosting present participle
ghosts third person singular

Etymology

Ghost in the mind means to appear and stay like a spirit that keeps returning, so a memory or fear that 'ghosts' someone comes back again and is hard to forget.