I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ghost/horror story
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They sat round the fire telling ghost stories.
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She likes reading horror stories.
be a shadow/ghost of your former self (= be much less confident, healthy, energetic etc than you used to be )
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The team’s a shadow of its former self.
ghost story
ghost town
ghost train
ghost writer
Holy Ghost, the
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
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An old ghost mouthing curses behind a cloudy, nylon veil.
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Exploring old mines and ghost towns.
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The change sheds a bit of light on an old ghost story.
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Turning back he felt strangely observed by old ghosts .
■ NOUN
story
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It's a bit like telling ghost stories .
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The change sheds a bit of light on an old ghost story .
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They spent their long winters under a deep blanket of snow, singing and creating ghost stories .
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Huck asks for a ghost story , so Jim tells a story about a scary evening he spent with medical school cadavers.
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We were talking about death and exchanging gruesome ghost stories .
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Myths and ghost stories abound on any normal day.
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There are loads of familiar ghost stories .
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The ghost story may be in for revision too.
town
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In a ghost town , silent and deserted as the Marie Celeste, I gave myself a history lesson.
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The area resembles a series of ghost towns .
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We think it's going to make Darlington a ghost town .
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Exploring old mines and ghost towns .
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I stayed in the one house left standing, a guest house in a ghost town of cracked jambs and gaping doorways.
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Benguela, in the south, is one of Kapuscinski's ghost towns .
train
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The latter is the branch line on which the mysterious ghost train was heard.
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On the subject of the ghost train , the shepherd was not prepared to make any comment.
writer
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Mr Pincher, though, is only the ghost writer and it's Dido who's grabbing the headlines.
■ VERB
become
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Already by early March, Verdun had become a ghost town.
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Sumner became a ghost town; his parish failed.
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They say people who die sudden, violent deaths are most likely to become ghosts and haunt the earth.
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The mine was worked on and off again until 1955, and then Mowry became a ghost town.
believe
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I had never believed in ghosts but what I had seen was unaccountable.
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They would never believe his ghost story in the morning.
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Or if you believe in ghosts or whatever.
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You can still believe in ghosts and be an atheist.
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I never believed in ghosts , but it is unsettling to be back.
feel
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Within me I feel dreadful ghosts and crimes locked within my bones, knotted into my very entrails.
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I go about vacantly smiling upon people and feeling like a ghost ....
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He felt the ghost of his earlier life round him.
give
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This is the gentler way: convince the mind the body's dead and it gives up the ghost .
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He would ordinarily blow out the candle and give up the ghost .
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The spores do germinate, go through a few perfunctory cell divisions, then give up the ghost .
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Doctors said that while his heart was fine, his vascular system had given up the ghost .
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Mrs Bean gave a mocking ghost of a laugh.
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What light struggled through the unwashed front window soon gave up the ghost in the air that seemed almost palpably grey.
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They squirmed, shrivelled and after a brief struggle, gave up the ghost .
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With one last defiant surge of power the jeep finally gave up the ghost .
haunt
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Thirty years later London's traffic planners were to be haunted by the ghosts of these proposals.
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But mostly what we get is a kind of arcane attraction, haunted by only a ghost of emotion.
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Mr Serrano is not the only person haunted by the ghosts of children.
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Supposed to be haunted by ghosts .
lay
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I came to London to lay ghosts , not to conjure them up.
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I went there to lay a ghost .
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They haven't managed to lay that particular ghost .
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She was going to cope, to face this, to brave it out and lay a certain ghost .
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Max So-you've laid the ghost .
look
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In the gloom he must have looked like a ghost .
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It looked like a ghost town; it was beautiful.
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Why, you look like a ghost .
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You look like a ghost , Mr Glover.
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At night, lit from within, she looked like a stricken ghost , fleeing the city of glittering towers.
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If you think I look like a ghost , you better go over there and see a real one.
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The greenish hue added to the mystery, making Titron look like a ghost ship.
see
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Rhoda took to table-tapping and seances and reported seeing the ghost of Wendy hovering over her bed at night.
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He held them off with his sharp weapon until he saw the ghost of Teiresias.
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Do you think she saw a ghost ?
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Coody says he has not seen the ghost , but he has been interviewing people who have.
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Yes, she could see that they were ghosts .
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They are ashen-faced, as if they've just seen a ghost .
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I got the impression that he was frightened, as if he had seen a ghost .
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Once again, she grasps control of the situation, when Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost .
sound
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At the age of 73, he sounded like a ghost from the past rather than a go-getter for the future.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a shadow/ghost of your former self
lay the ghost (of sth)
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Max So-you've laid the ghost.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Do you believe in ghosts?
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Do you know any good ghost stories?
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Hindus believe that ghosts are scared of fire.
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The ghost can be heard going up and down the stairs in the middle of the night, Ackley said.
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The ghost of Stalinism still affects life in Russia today.
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The church is haunted by the ghost of a young man who was killed there on his wedding day.
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They say the captain's ghost still haunts the waterfront.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Do you think she saw a ghost ?
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More a ghost than a man at that point, standing there in what looked like a gray sack, shivering.
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The San Joaquin is but a ghost .
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The stars showed the way, but faintly, like lamps along a road for ghosts.
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Though he wasn't a ghost she was still too scared to touch that small, shaky hand.
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We lucky this ghost is a baby.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be a shadow/ghost of your former self
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The former reporter ghosted Reagan's autobiography.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Moving soundlessly on his thick rubber soles, he ghosted swiftly down to the lowest platform.