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ghosting.

A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation.

8 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun

  1. A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation.

    colloquial · countable · uncountable
    Stories of ghosting often deal with broken-off romances, but ghosting can end a friendship as well.

  2. The blurry appearance of a television picture resulting from interference caused by multipath reception.

    countable · uncountable

  3. A form of identity theft in which someone steals the identity, and sometimes even the role within society, of a specific dead person (the "ghost") who is not widely known to be deceased.

    countable · uncountable

  4. The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.

    countable · uncountable

  5. Ghost imaging.

    countable · uncountable

  6. The practice of hiding prisoners from inspection by outside inspectors.

    countable · uncountable
    Their hastily fabricated Potemkin village was practically deserted, what with all the ghosting.

  7. The act or habit of exhaling vape smoke slowly, to prevent others from noticing.

    countable · slang · uncountable

  8. A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From ghost + -ing.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of ghost

    form-of · gerund · participle · present
Where this word comes from

From ghost + -ing.

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