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ghosten

ghosten adjective: of, belonging to, or pertaining to ghosts; ghostly; spiritual.

Adjective

ghosten (comparative more ghosten, superlative most ghosten)

  1. (poetic) Of, belonging to, or pertaining to ghosts; ghostly; spiritual.
    • And the cold chill of an adder touch Sit with a leaden sway. And the ghosten spell-bound dogs, And the coasten hell-hound dogs, Glooms the coming of the day.1862, Gordon Winant Hewes, Ballads of the war
    • Time Chimes its swallows from the ghosten brass Under the trembling mirrors, a heart Groined with gloom and iron sighs Winter and summer laid four tones apart Moans the bell in your empty thighs.1969, Stephen Spender, Irving Kristol, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Encounter

Verb

ghosten (third-person singular simple present ghostens, present participle ghostening, simple past and past participle ghostened)

  1. (ambitransitive, nonstandard, poetic) To make like a ghost; behave or appear as a ghost; make ghostly.
    • So looks the last month's pilgrimage, So the last hill, Down the moon-ghostened road there walks.1911, John Freeman, Fifty poems
    • All must look magical in the silence of the stars, when the moon ghostens in the trees, and owls float noiselessly about or pass the time of night in their long melopy, from hollybush to old Scotch fir, their cries reechoing from the turrets of the house and sounding on the lake.1912, Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, Charity

Forms of ghosten

Adjective
comparativemore ghosten
superlativemost ghosten
Verb
third-person singular presentghostens
present participleghostening
past participleghostened
pastghostened

Origin of ghosten

From ghost + -en (“resembling”).

From ghost + -en (“to become like”).

Questions about ghosten

What does ghosten mean?
Ghosten means of, belonging to, or pertaining to ghosts; ghostly; spiritual.
What part of speech is ghosten?
Ghosten can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near ghosten in the dictionary

  1. ghostdom
  2. ghostdoms
  3. ghosted
  4. ghostee
  5. ghostees
  6. ghosten
  7. ghostened
  8. ghostening
  9. ghostens
  10. ghoster
  11. ghosters

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