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单词 ghosted
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ghostedadj.

Brit. /ˈɡəʊstᵻd/, U.S. /ˈɡoʊstəd/
Forms: late Middle English gostid, 1800s– ghosted.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ghost n., -ed suffix2.
Etymology: < ghost n. + -ed suffix2. With sense 3 compare later ghost v. 4a.
1. That is endowed with or animated by a soul. Obsolete.
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c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 1874 Gostid godesses & gods ere graythid neuir to dye.
2. That has become or been turned into a ghost; deceased, dead.
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the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective]
deadOE
lifelessOE
of lifeOE
storvena1225
dead as a door-nail1362
ydead1387
stark deadc1390
colda1400
bypast1425
perishedc1440
morta1450
obita1450
unquickc1449
gone?a1475
dead and gone1482
extinct1483
departed1503
bygonea1522
amort1546
soulless1553
breathless1562
parted1562
mortified1592
low-laid1598
disanimate1601
carcasseda1603
defunct1603
no morea1616
with God1617
death-stricken1618
death-strucken1622
expired1631
past itc1635
incinerated1657
stock-dead1662
dead as a herring1664
death-struck1688
as dead as a nit1789
(as) dead as mutton1792
low1808
laid in the locker1815
strae-dead1820
disanimated1833
ghosted1834
under the daisies1842
irresuscitable1843
under the sod1847
toes up1851
dead and buried1863
devitalized1866
translated1869
dead and done (for, with)1886
daid1890
bung1893
(as) dead as the (or a) dodo1904
six feet under1942
brown bread1969
1834 T. Aird in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 618 Rise, my ghosted love, and testify Against the harsh decree that such must die.
1881 L. P. Hopkins Breath of Field & Shore 26 Our ghosted souls aswing from the body's moorings.
1906 A. Bierce Cynic's Word Bk. 189 The narrative ended abruptly at that point owing to the inconsiderate crowing of a cock, which compelled the ghosted King of Men to scamper back to Hades.
2012 M. Orlando Secrets of Ghosts (e-book, accessed 18 Jan. 2021) 282 As her arms flew through the ghosted boy, an icy chill filled her veins.
3. That has been written by a ghostwriter; = ghost-written adj.
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1904 Outlook 2 July 555/2 Pope's Odyssey at once suggests itself as an example of a ghosted book.
1988 Oxf. Today 1 45/1 The award to Leonid Brezhnev,..as General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, of the Lenin Prize for Literature for his ghosted memoirs.
2016 Australian (Nexis) 3 Dec. (Sport section) 40 The ghosted autobiography is a genre routinely slighted, and not without reason.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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