spook as a noun: - 1
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as a verb: - 1
spook
noun
1 spook
2 spook
A mental representation of some haunting experience.
synonyms: ghost, shade, specter, spectre, wraith.
Roget 980:
demon,
daemon,
demonry†,
demonology;
evil genius,
fiend,
familiar,
daeva†,
devil;
bad spirit,
unclean spirit;
cacodemon†,
incubus,
Eblis,
shaitan†,
succubus,
succuba;
Frankenstein's monster;
Titan,
Shedim,
Mephistopheles,
Asmodeus†,
Moloch,
Belial,
Ahriman†;
fury,
harpy;
Friar Rush.
vampire,
ghoul;
afreet†,
barghest†,
Loki;
ogre,
ogress;
gnome,
gin,
jinn,
imp,
deev†,
lamia†;
bogie,
bogeyman,
bogle†;
nis†,
kobold†,
flibbertigibbet,
fairy,
brownie,
pixy,
elf,
dwarf,
urchin;
Puck,
Robin Goodfellow;
leprechaun,
Cluricaune†,
troll,
dwerger†,
sprite,
ouphe†,
bad fairy,
nix,
nixie,
pigwidgeon†,
will-o'-the wisp.
[Supernatural appearance]
ghost,
revenant,
specter,
apparition,
spirit,
shade,
shadow,
vision;
hobglobin,
goblin,
orc;
wraith,
spook,
boggart†,
banshee,
loup-garou [Fr.],
lemures†;
evil eye.
merman,
mermaid,
merfolk†;
siren;
satyr,
faun;
manito†,
manitou,
manitu.
possession,
demonic possession,
diabolic possession;
insanity
etc.
503.
[in jest, in science]
Maxwell's demon.
[person possessed by a demon]
demoniac.
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Dutch: schim, geest, spook
verb
1 spook
Frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action.
Moby thesaurus: Masan, affright, agent, agitate, alarm, apparition, appearance, astral, astral spirit, awe, banshee, bogey, bug, case, character, control, convulse, curdle the blood, departed spirit, discompose, disembodied spirit, disquiet, distract, disturb, duck, duppy, dybbuk, eidolon, embroil, form, fright, frighten, funk, ghost, grateful dead, guide, hant, haunt, horripilate, idolum, immateriality, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, larva, lemures, make one tremble, manes, materialization, obsess, oddball, oddity, oni, original, perturb, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, poltergeist, possess, presence, psych, quiz, raise apprehensions, revenant, scare, shade, shadow, shake, shape, shrouded spirit, specter, spectral ghost, spirit, sprite, spy, stagger, startle, terrify, terrorize, theophany, throw, throw into confusion, trouble, undercover man, unman, unnerve, unsettle, unstring, unsubstantiality, upset, vision, walking dead man, wandering soul, wraith, zombie ... show more.
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