wraith
Pronunciations (2)
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/ɹeɪθ/
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ɹeɪθ
Noun
A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.
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We might indeed have been the wraiths of the departed dead upon the dead sea of that dying planet for all the sound or sign we made in passing.
Like wraiths with the impediments of bodies they stumbled in the direction of Salthill faces.
Noun
a mental representation of some haunting experience
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he looked like he had seen a ghost
it aroused specters from his past
a malevolent or haunting spirit
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Word forms
wraiths