お化け — meaning in English

English meaning

• ghost noun The soul of a dead person believed to appear to or haunt the living.
• haunted adj Said of a place, believed to be regularly visited by a ghost.

Senses

お化け is used for these senses in English:

• ghost A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
• haunted Of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.

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.

haunted — full definition

1. adj Said of a place, believed to be regularly visited by a ghost.
2. adj Deeply troubled or preoccupied, as if by a persistent bad memory.

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