WRAITH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mental representation of some haunting experience

Example:

it aroused specters from his past

Synonyms:

ghost; shade; specter; spectre; spook; wraith

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("wraith" is a kind of...):

apparition; fantasm; phantasm; phantasma; phantom; shadow (something existing in perception only)

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