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Ghost Thing Faint Weak Exists Ghosted Gave Smile

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If there is a g____ of something, that thing is so faint or weak that it hardly exists.If there is a ghost of something, that thing is so faint or weak that it hardly exists.
He gave the ghost of a smile.
The sun was warm and there was just a ghost of a breeze from the north-west.
word ghost
full-definition
noun
A ghost is the spirit of a dead person that someone believes they can see or feel .
...the ghost of Marie Antoinette.
The village is haunted by the ghosts of the dead children.
The ghost of something, especially of something bad that has happened, is the memory of it.
The Rams have finally laid the ghost of seasons past to rest.
...the ghost of anti-Americanism.
If there is a ghost of something, that thing is so faint or weak that it hardly exists.
He gave the ghost of a smile.
The sun was warm and there was just a ghost of a breeze from the north-west.
verb
If a book or other piece of writing is ghosted, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.
I published his autobiography, which was very competently ghosted by a woman journalist from the Daily Mail.
I ghosted his weekly rugby column for the Telegraph.
inflections ghostsghostingghosted
cefr-level B1

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