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ghostata — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • ghost noun The soul of a dead person believed to appear to or haunt the living.
  • ghosting noun The practice of ending a friendship, romance or working relationship by suddenly cutting off all contact and ignoring every message, without any explanation.

Senses

ghostata is used for these senses in English:

  • ghost (chiefly, social media, slang) To stop communicating with (someone) on social media, though text messages, etc., without explanation, especially as a way of ending a relationship; hence, to end a relationship with (someone) by stopping all communication without explanation.

ghost — full definition

  1. noun The soul of a dead person believed to appear to or haunt the living.
  2. verb To suddenly stop all communication with someone, especially in a relationship, without any explanation.
  3. verb To secretly write or produce work credited to someone else (short for ghostwrite).
  4. verb To make a visual element look faint or grayed-out to show it can't currently be used.

ghosting — full definition

  1. noun The practice of ending a friendship, romance or working relationship by suddenly cutting off all contact and ignoring every message, without any explanation.
  2. verb Present participle of ghost: to disappear from someone's life without warning or explanation.
  3. noun A faint secondary image that appears beside or behind the intended one on a screen, print or photograph.

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