ghoul
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9.3
- noun
- /ɡuːl/
- NSFW
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- Beneath streetlights that materialize like stars, ghouls and goblins dash up and down the street.
- flesh-eating ghouls
The spider webs, the spiders, the ghouls, the goblins, the spectres.
- The spider webs, the spiders, the ghouls, the goblins, the spectres.
- Yeah, because souls, ethers and ghosts and ghouls are totally real.
- Halloween is filled with ghosts, goblins, and ghouls, but do you know what can be truly terrifying?
- I would, I would say maybe the story's leaning more towards like she's like a ghoul, you know, like a monstrous zombie almost thing.
- Radiation doesn't just heal the Fallout ghoul, it feeds them.
- The cult de ghouls, you know, Yeah.
- Ruffle the fucking ghouls that I've seen walking around the earth right now.
- It's such a blast to to shoot that scene, the concept of ghouls.
- I was told that ghouls and goblins are not invisible, which means you are not a goblin.
Examples
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Sally is about to turn around, but as the ghoul vanishes, she continues on her way.
Fiction book (1993) -
How would the introduction of flesh-eating ghouls affect world politics?
Academic text (2010) -
What are you, some kind of ghoul?
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Why could I see the ghoul and you couldn't?
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What was all this about the ghouls coming to murder the boys?
Fiction book (2002) -
You're an absolute ghoul, Colin, a ghoul.
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At the stroke of midnight, the witching hour, the ghouls arise from the dead!
Fiction book (1994) -
Halloween is filled with ghosts, goblins, and ghouls, but do you know what can be truly terrifying?
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Beware of the ghouls.
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On Halloween night, children dressed as ghouls roamed the neighborhood, looking for candy.
Synonyms
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8.6
A ghost that people say appears and frightens them at night
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6.8
A ghost or invisible being people believe causes harm and bad luck
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9.9
A pale ghost that appears near a person's death
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9.7
A ghost that makes loud noises and moves things
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9.9
A scary creature from old stories that scares people
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9.9
A ghost or goblin from Scottish and northern English stories
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9.9
A frightening ghost that appears at night
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9.5
A spirit without a body that appears to people or stays near places
Antonyms
Compounds
How Scary
- Literature
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- Literature
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- NSFW
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9.3
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3.0
- Literature
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8.9
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ghoul comes from the Arabic word ghul, which means 'demon' that eats or takes the dead. So imagine a monster at a grave stealing bodies — that image explains why ghoul means a scary spirit or ghost in stories.