ghost

Meanings

• a mental representation of some haunting experience
  • "he looked like he had seen a ghost"
• a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
• the visible disembodied soul of a dead person
• a suggestion of some quality
  • "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"
• move like a ghost
  • "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"
• haunt like a ghost; pursue
• write for someone else
  • "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?"

Synonyms

ghostwrite, ghostwriter, haunt, obsess, shade, specter, spectre, spook, touch, trace, wraith