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English noun: spook | |||
| 1. | spook (person) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | ||
| Synonyms | creep, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | disagreeable person, unpleasant person | ||
| 2. | spook (cognition) a mental representation of some haunting experience | ||
| Samples | He looked like he had seen a ghost. It aroused specters from his past. | ||
| Synonyms | ghost, shade, specter, spectre, wraith | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow | ||
English verb: spook | |||
| 1. | spook (emotion) frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action | ||
| Samples | The noise spooked the horse. | ||
| Examples | The performance is likely to spook Sue | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | affright, fright, frighten, scare | ||
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