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spook
UK
/spuːk/
US
/spuk/
Translations
spooks
pl
UK
/spuːk/
US
/spuk/
The old house is said to be haunted by a spook.
Говорят, что в старом доме обитает призрак.
The spook gathered intelligence for the agency.
Шпион собирал информацию для агентства.
Additional translations
Synonyms
spooked
Past Simple
spooked
Past Participle
spooking
Gerund
UK
/spuːk/
US
/spuk/
The sudden noise can spook the horses.
Внезапный шум может пугать лошадей.
The ghost story was enough to spook the children.
История о привидении была достаточной, чтобы испугать детей.
Definitions
The old house was rumored to be haunted by a spook that appeared at midnight.
The novel's protagonist was a spook working for the government, gathering intelligence on foreign threats.
He was such a spook, always disappearing without a trace and never revealing his true intentions.
He was disciplined for calling his colleague a "spook," an offensive racial slur.
Camping alone in the dark always gives me the spooks.
The loud noise spooked the horses, causing them to bolt.
The deer spooked and ran into the forest when it heard the hunters approaching.
Reporters suspected the agency had been spooking foreign diplomats for years.
They turned the basement into a spook house for Halloween.