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.
   "The old TV suffered from ghosting, making it difficult to watch"
    
3. Identity theft where someone takes on the identity of a dead person
   "The fraudster was arrested for ghosting after using a deceased person's social security number"

1. Haunt like a ghost; pursue
   "Memories of the accident ghosted him for years";
   - haunt, obsess
    
2. Move like a ghost
   "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard"
    
3. Write for someone else
   "She ghosted several celebrity autobiographies";
   - 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