spook

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
• Syn:
creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy
• Derivationally related forms:
creepy (for: creep), creep (for: creep)
• Hypernyms:
unpleasant person, disagreeable person
2. a mental representation of some haunting experience
- he looked like he had seen a ghost
- it aroused specters from his past
• Syn:
ghost, shade, wraith, specter, spectre
• Derivationally related forms:
ghost (for: ghost)
• Hypernyms:
apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow

II - verb

frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action
- The noise spooked the horse
• Hypernyms:
frighten, fright, scare, affright
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- The performance is likely to spook Sue

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  ghost, shade, wraith, specter, spectre, creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy