spooked
About 0.22 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective A little scared; worried by a feeling or event. Describing the unsettling feeling there being another unknown ghostly presence.
- adjective Being spied upon by security or intelligence services.
- adjective Taken off guard; astonished; surprised.
- adjective Duped into believing a spook.
- verb simple past and past participle of spook
Similar words
specter spectre ghost wraith weirdy weirdo weirdie shade schmuck creep
Often followed by
by the and him me her them at a
Word family
spook spooking spooks
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