beghost

B3E1G2H4O1S1T1

verb

To endow with a spirit or ghost; haunt.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

verbbeghost (third-person singular simple present beghosts, present participle beghosting, simple past and past participle beghosted)

present singular third person beghosts · participle present beghosting · participle past beghosted · past beghosted

  1. transitiveTo endow with a spirit or ghost; haunt.

    Was Hamlet's armour beghosted too?

    1910, Charles Francis Keary, The pursuit of reason
    3 more examples

    For two centuries or more Littlecote, which is near Hungerford, was owned by the Darrell family, and it was they who finally beghosted not only the house but also the neighbourhood — even as far as the Hungerford to Salisbury road.

    1988, John Canning, 50 Great Ghost Stories

    Later she remembered them as ensorcelled houses; beghosted by their occupants' fears of disappointment, by the memories of their lives and other lives they might have had.

    1989, Ronald Frame, Penelope's hat

    […] and the publication of the very interesting tale from which it is taken, we have been so beghosted both in prose and verse, […]

    2005, Charles Lloyd, Philip Cox, Anti-Jacobin novels: Edmund Oliver (1798)
  2. transitiveTo make a ghost of; teach (one) how to play a ghost.

Origin

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APA

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MLA

“beghost.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beghost. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “beghost,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beghost.

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