|  spook 
 
 1. someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
 • Syn:
 creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy
 • Derivationally related forms:
 creepy (for: creep), creep (for: creep)
 • Hypernyms:
 unpleasant person, disagreeable person
 2. a mental representation of some haunting experience
 - he looked like he had seen a ghost
 - it aroused specters from his past
 • Syn:
 ghost, shade, wraith, specter, spectre
 • Derivationally related forms:
 ghost (for: ghost)
 • Hypernyms:
 apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow
 
 frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action
 - The noise spooked the horse
 • Hypernyms:
 frighten, fright, scare, affright
 • Verb Frames:
 - Somebody ----s somebody
 - Something ----s somebody
 - The performance is likely to spook Sue
 
 
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