spook

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++spook1 /spuːk/ noun [countable] informal  1. GHOSTa ghost 鬼2. especially American EnglishSPY a spy 密探，间谍

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spook• Paltry charges, it would seem, for so celebrated a spook.• And these foreign spooks, these non-existents on the pay-rolls of any Western army, were part of that scheme.• As worrisome to the Agency as loose-lipped spooks were those few outsiders who dared to write about it.• Hsu admits that it is somewhat ironic that technology designed to help democratise the internet is also allowing the spooks to spy.• Concocting any half-truth that suited some harebrained plan dreamed up by the spooks in Century House.• Anyone going to that kind of trouble, he said, has likely crossed the line from enthusiast to spook.spook2 verb [transitive] informal  FRIGHTENEDto frighten someone 使惊慌，惊吓 I’m not easily spooked. 我不是容易受惊吓的人。→ See Verb table

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spook• They are spooking away at the window and Charlie and Emma take some direct action and soak them in water.• If the cap had been spooked by our presence could the same be true of the cats?• Maybe she came in at bath time because being alone in her empty wing spooked her.• Something spooked him, deep inside, somewhere inaccessible.• The proposal so spooked lawmakers that they offered an alternative referendum that allowed independent voters to vote in primaries.• Brown has taken great care not to spook the City.• Something must have spooked the horses.• If the stock market spooks you, park your money in two-year Treasury notes.Origin spook1 (1800-1900) Dutch

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spook¹ /spuːk/ noun [countable] informal1. a ghost
2. especially American English a spy
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ ghost the spirit of a dead person that some people think they can feel or see in a place: His ghost is believed to haunt the house.
   ▪ spirit a creature without a physical body, such as an angel or ghost: evil spirits | the spirit world
   ▪ apparition an image of a dead person that someone sees suddenly for a short time: He claimed to have seen an apparition in the church.
   ▪ poltergeist a ghost that people cannot see, which throws things or moves things around: The house was haunted by a poltergeist that makes things move around all by themselves, sometimes quite big things like beds or wardrobes.
   ▪ spook informal a ghost: I’m not scared of spooks.
   ▪ phantom literary a frightening and unclear image of a dead person: They had seen phantoms gliding on the surface of the water.
   ▪ spectre British English, specter American English literary a ghost, especially a frightening one: She had looked like a spectre. | The following night, the spectre appeared again.

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spook² verb [transitive] informal
to frighten someone:
    I’m not easily spooked.