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Noun: ghosting  gows-ting
  1. Method of ending a personal relationship by stopping all contact without any explanation
    "We can take upfront rejection a whole lot better than ghosting"
     
  2. The unwanted appearance of a faint double image on a screen, printout, etc.
     
  3. Identity theft where someone takes on the identity of a dead person
Verb: ghost  gowst
  1. Move like a ghost
    "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"
     
  2. Haunt like a ghost; pursue
    - haunt, obsess
     
  3. Write for someone else
    - ghostwrite
     
  4. End a personal relationship by stopping all contact without explanation
    "a way to reduce the chances of being ghosted is to only date people that you get to know in person first"

Derived forms: ghostings

Type of: author, go, locomote, move, preoccupy, travel

Encyclopedia: Ghosting

Ghost, Interrupted