| 单词 | wraith |
| 释义 | wraith (once / 5783 pages) n If you have a vision of your grandfather just before he passes away, you have seen a wraith or a ghostly image. Wraith can also mean something thin, wispy, or ghost-like. You could call a wisp of smoke rising from a chimney a wraith or you could say that a sick aunt had been reduced to a wraith — a thin, ghostly, figure. Sometimes it's even a compliment, which shows how we idealize wraith-like fashion models. Wraith is of unknown origins, and there aren't any other words related to it. WORD FAMILYwraith: wraithlike, wraiths USAGE EXAMPLESWherever you are in England there could be a local wraith, ghoul or phantom waiting in the shadows. BBC(Oct 30, 2016) A wraith that used to haunt the Golden Fleece pub allegedly followed an American visitor home to tug at her hair every night. The Guardian(Oct 28, 2016) The Wraith is lighter and more powerful than the Dawn, but the latter owns the sky. Wall Street Journal(Sep 22, 2016) n a mental representation of some haunting experience Syn|Hyper ghost, shade, specter, spectre, spook apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow something existing in perception only |
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