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verb Simple past tense and past participle of ghost.

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The faint outline of the word soup ghosted across a sooty wall.

Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
The faint outline of the word soup ghosted across a sooty wall.

Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
It has a special paint job: Bordeaux Red with "ghosted" stripes.

Neiman Marcus Camaro Convertible: A holiday bargain at twice the price? 2010
That's because plasma TVs have been relatively free from crosstalk, or "ghosted" double images that occur when images meant for one eye aren't kept completely separate from the other.

First Look: New 3D LCD TVs from LG, Sony 2010
That's because plasma TVs have been relatively free from crosstalk, or "ghosted" double images that occur when images meant for one eye aren't kept completely separate from the other.

First Look: New 3D LCD TVs from LG, Sony 2010
It has a special paint job: Bordeaux Red with "ghosted" stripes.

Neiman Marcus Camaro Convertible: A holiday bargain at twice the price? 2010
They can change colour and create countless intricate patterns on their bodies to blend with their surroundings... maybe that's what the "ghosted" images are in the trailers and posters?

Monstrous Poster - High Res Dennis 2007
There was a note inside explaining that I had been "ghosted" with the bag.

Archive 2006-10-01 Jeff 2006
There was a note inside explaining that I had been "ghosted" with the bag.

I've been ghosted. Jeff 2006
No other man "ghosted" more books for magicians - Walter Gibson became both biographer and the "ghost writer" for Howard Thurston, Harry Houdini, and Harry Blackstone.

Walter Gibson AKA Maxwell Grant hyperdave 2006
In a report last month, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago said a number of employers reported being "ghosted" by workers — that's right, like how a Tinder date might stop answering your texts.

Bulky Cameras, Meet The Lens-less FlatCam Emily Sullivan 2019

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bilby commented on the word ghosted

It's a shame this is listed :-(((

October 3, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word ghosted

Now that words can enter the database without being listed, this place is, in Wordie terms, positively a ghost town.

November 17, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word ghosted

I know! I thought about this the other day. The tag "ghosted" is useless now. :(

November 18, 2009
reesetee commented on the word ghosted

Maybe we should call them spy words instead. ;-)

November 18, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word ghosted

Or conscientious objectors, for evading enlistment.

November 18, 2009
reesetee commented on the word ghosted

Ah. Excellent.

November 18, 2009
uselessness commented on the word ghosted

Brilliant.

November 18, 2009
MaryW commented on the word ghosted

A number of contacts said that they had been "ghosted," a situation in which a worker stops coming to work without notice and then is impossible to contact.
Federal Reserve Board Beige Book - Dec. 5, 2018
National data on economic “ghosting” is lacking. The term, which usually applies to dating, first surfaced in 2016 on Dictionary.com. But companies across the country say silent exits are on the rise.
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Some employees are simply young and restless, said James Cooper, former manager of the Old Faithful Inn at Yellowstone Park, where he said people ghosted regularly.
A few of his staffers were college students who lived in park dormitories for the summer.
“My favorite,” he said, “was a kid who left a note on the floor in his dorm room that said ‘sorry bros, had to ghost.’ ”
Danielle Paqquette, Workers Are Ghosting Their Employers Like Bad Dates, Wash. Post (Dec. 12, 2018)

December 17, 2018