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to spook
01
to startle or frighten someone suddenly
Transitive: to spook a person or animal
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
spook
3rd person singular
spooks
Present participle
spooking
Past simple
spooked
Past participle
spooked
Examples
The sudden noise from the door slamming spooked the cat, causing it to jump.
Spook
01
a mental representation of some haunting experience
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Abstract
Composition
Simple
Countable
Plural form
spooks
02
someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
Lexical Tree
spooked
spook
