[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.Synonyms: spook , shade , revenant , wraith , phantasm , phantom , apparition", "a mere shadow or semblance; a trace:He's a ghost of his former self.", "a remote possibility:He hasn't a ghost of a chance.", "(sometimes initial capital letter)a spiritual being.", "the principle of life; soul ; spirit .", "Informal. ghostwriter .", "a secondary image, especially one appearing on a television screen as a white shadow, caused by poor or double reception or by a defect in the receiver.", "Also calledghost im·age[gohst, im-ij].Photography.a faint secondary or out-of-focus image in a photographic print or negative resulting from reflections within the camera lens.", "an oral word game in which each player in rotation adds a letter to those supplied by preceding players, the object being to avoid ending a word.", "Optics.a series of false spectral lines produced by a diffraction grating with unevenly spaced lines.", "Metalworking.a streak appearing on a freshly machined piece of steel containing impurities.", "a red blood cell having no hemoglobin.", "a fictitious employee, business, etc., fabricated especially for the purpose of manipulating funds or avoiding taxes:Investigation showed a payroll full of ghosts."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to ghostwrite (a book, speech, etc.).", "to haunt.", "Engraving.to lighten the background of (a photograph) before engraving.", "Informal.to suddenly end all contact with (a person) without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship:The guy I’ve been dating ghosted me.to leave (a social event or gathering) suddenly without saying goodbye:My friend ghosted my birthday party.", "to suddenly end all contact with (a person) without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship:The guy I’ve been dating ghosted me.", "to leave (a social event or gathering) suddenly without saying goodbye:My friend ghosted my birthday party.", "Digital Technology.to remove (comments, threads, or other digital content) from a website or online forum without informing the poster, keeping them hidden from the public but still visible to the poster."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to ghostwrite.", "to go about or move like a ghost.", "(of a sailing vessel) to move when there is no perceptible wind.", "to pay people for work not performed, especially as a way of manipulating funds.", "Informal.to suddenly end all contact with a person without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship:They dated for a month and then she ghosted.to leave a social event or gathering suddenly without saying goodbye:I'm getting tired so I think I might just ghost.", "to suddenly end all contact with a person without explanation, especially in a romantic relationship:They dated for a month and then she ghosted.", "to leave a social event or gathering suddenly without saying goodbye:I'm getting tired so I think I might just ghost.", "Digital Technology.to remove comments, threads, or other digital content from a website or online forum without informing the poster, keeping them hidden from the public but still visible to the poster."]}, {"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["fabricated for purposes of deception or fraud:We were making contributions to a ghost company."]}]