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Word entry · 6 letters

wraith

Best crossword clue

"Spectral apparition"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ɹeɪθ/Part of speech nounSorted ahirtwStarts with WEnds with H1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a mental representation of some haunting experience

Word origin

Borrowed from Middle Scots wraith, first attested in 1513 in a translation of the Aeneid.

Used in a sentence

  • We might indeed have been the wraiths of the departed dead upon the dead sea of that dying planet for all the sound or sign we made in passing.
  • Like wraiths with the impediments of bodies they stumbled in the direction of Salthill faces.

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