I didn't mean to spook you.
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Spook
//spuːk//
Synonyms for "spook" (124 found)
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Closest matches (25)
Strong matches (37)
Related words (62)
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12 entriesSynonyms
9 entriesderived
7 entrieshas context
3 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
33 entriesShowing 16 of 33 words.
Translations
65 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- дух noun (ghost or phantom)
- при́зрак noun (ghost or phantom)
- таласъ́м noun (hobgoblin)
Chichewa
1 entries- mzukwa noun (ghost or phantom)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 黑鬼 noun (pejorative: black person)
Dutch
4 entries- geest noun (ghost or phantom)
- kabouter noun (hobgoblin)
- nikker noun (pejorative: black person)
- schijnsel noun (ghost or phantom)
Finnish
4 entries- aave noun (ghost or phantom)
- haamu noun (ghost or phantom)
- kummitus noun (ghost or phantom)
- peikko noun (hobgoblin)
French
4 entries- bamboula noun (pejorative: black person)
- barbouze noun (spy)
- espion noun (spy)
- fantôme noun (ghost or phantom)
Georgian
4 entries- მოლანდება noun (ghost or phantom)
- მოჩვენება noun (ghost or phantom)
- მსტოვარი noun (spy)
- შპიონი noun (spy)
German
4 entries- Geheimagent noun (spy)
- Geist noun (ghost or phantom)
- Gespenst noun (ghost or phantom)
- Kobold noun (hobgoblin)
Indonesian
1 entries- hantu noun (ghost or phantom)
Māori
4 entries- mangumangu taipō noun (ghost or phantom)
- taipō noun (ghost or phantom)
- taipō noun (hobgoblin)
- whakamataku verb (to scare or frighten)
Occitan
2 entries- espia noun (spy)
- espion noun (spy)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Spuak noun (ghost or phantom)
Romanian
4 entries- fantomă noun (ghost or phantom)
- spion noun (spy)
- spiriduș noun (hobgoblin)
- stafie noun (ghost or phantom)
Russian
4 entries- ни́ггер noun (pejorative: black person)
- при́зрак noun (ghost or phantom)
- шпио́н noun (spy)
- вспугивать verb (to scare or frighten)
Spanish
4 entries- asustar verb (to scare or frighten)
- aterrorizar verb (to scare or frighten)
- espantar verb (to scare or frighten)
- sobresaltar verb (to scare or frighten)
Swedish
3 entries- osalig ande noun (ghost or phantom)
- spöke noun (ghost or phantom)
- skrämma verb (to scare or frighten)
Turkish
1 entries- hayalet noun (ghost or phantom)
Ukrainian
1 entries- зляка́ти verb (to scare or frighten)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
You'll spook Tom.
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You'll spook them.
Source: tatoeba (3909477)
You'll spook him.
Source: tatoeba (3909478)
Showing 4 of 18 available sentences.
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