to ghost
- verb
- /ɡoʊst/
- As the players moved, they ghosted around the defenders with ease and skill.
- ghosted up from behind
- ghosted away
- ghosted through the front
I I mean the body, it's voice ghosting movements of a larger shore, wave, lap, dissolve, roar.
- I I mean the body, it's voice ghosting movements of a larger shore, wave, lap, dissolve, roar.
Examples
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The cat ghosted silently across the room, unnoticed by everyone.
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How quickly you forget how I can ghost through the city... tracking whom I please.
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Scott, because he held a lot of hats, could ghost by as a number of things for us from the bench.
Blog text (32) -
Plan was to clean the bank, ghost the mercs... break wide through the tunnel.
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Cunning, ghosting back and forth across the border.
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He followed me to Dillsburg, ghosting along behind.
Fiction book (1992) -
She ghosted through the garden, careful not to make a sound.
Synonyms
To move slowly and quietly with the body low to the ground
To move smoothly and quietly like a snake along the ground
To move or act quietly to avoid being noticed
To hide and move quietly in dark places to avoid being seen
To move quietly and carefully so other people do not notice
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Literature
A religious dance from the late 1800s in which Native American people try to talk with spirits and find hope
- Australian
A small or medium tree from Australia and Tasmania with smooth pale bark that peels in strips
- Specialized
A word that enters a language because of a mistake, like a misprint, and has no real use
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Ghost (to move quietly) uses the picture of a spirit that floats and is hard to notice, so to ghost through a room is to move smoothly and without sound.