ghost

Noun

• a suggestion of some quality
  • there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone
    
  • he detected a ghost of a smile on her face
    

• the visible disembodied soul of a dead person

• a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

• a mental representation of some haunting experience
  • he looked like he had seen a ghost
    
  • it aroused specters from his past
    

Verb

• write for someone else
  • How many books have you ghostwritten so far?
    

• haunt like a ghost; pursue
  • Fear of illness haunts her
    

• move like a ghost
  • The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  touch , trace , ghostwriter , shade , spook , wraith , specter , spectre , ghostwrite , haunt , obsess