spook

(noun, verb)

noun

1. someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

Similar word(s): creep, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy

Definition categories: person

2. a mental representation of some haunting experience

Similar word(s): ghost, shade, specter, spectre, wraith

Definition categories: thought, apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow

Sentences with spook as a noun:

- The visit to the old cemetery brought scary visions of spooks and ghosts.

- The building was haunted by a couple of spooks.

- The big spider gave me a spook.

verb

1. frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action

- The noise spooked the horse

Definition categories: emotion, affright, fright, frighten, scare

Sentences with spook as a verb:

- The movement in the bushes spooked the deer and they ran.