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specter

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spec·ter  (spktr)
n.
1. A ghostly apparition; a phantom.
2. A haunting or disturbing image or prospect: the terrible specter of nuclear war.
[French spectre, from Latin spectrum, appearance, apparition; see spectrum.]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.specterspecter - a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
ghost, wraith, spectre, spook, shade
fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow, apparition - something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight"
2.specterspecter - a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"
apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, spectre
disembodied spirit, spirit - any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings
Flying Dutchman - the captain of a phantom ship (the Flying Dutchman) who was condemned to sail against the wind until Judgment Day


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Tormented, in the hall, with difficulties and obstacles, I remember sinking down at the foot of the staircase--suddenly collapsing there on the lowest step and then, with a revulsion, recalling that it was exactly where more than a month before, in the darkness of night and just so bowed with evil things, I had seen the specter of the most horrible of women.
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As time went on, the people of the region became sorely distressed about the Specter of the Haunted Cave.
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He stalked like the specter of a soldier, his eyes burning with the power of a stare into the unknown.
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