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spooked

/spook/US // spuk //UK // (spuːk) informal //

受到惊吓的,受到惊吓,惊吓的,惊恐的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Informal. a ghost; specter.
    • : Slang. a ghostwriter.
    • : Slang. an eccentric person.
    • : Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a Black person.
    • : Slang. an espionage agent; spy.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to haunt; inhabit or appear in or to as a ghost or specter.
    • : Informal. to frighten; scare.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Informal. to become frightened or scared: The fish spooked at any disturbance in the pool.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • But their weapons are becomingly increasingly obsolete—and that has some in the U.S. Air Force spooked.

  • But a new, ultra-sophisticated spy plane has U.S. military and intelligence bosses spooked.

  • No accident in history of flying has ever spooked as many people.

  • No accident in the history of aviation has so spooked people around the world.

  • Or perhaps when I dropped the word “legal,” the people behind WeedPortal.com got spooked.

  • Jed looked quickly at Cal when he told him how the colonists had spooked, bolted in panic.

  • He spooked at imagined noises and thudding rain and the dry creaking of the old house as he toweled off and dressed.

  • More spooked, perhaps, more frightened—only the Cytha did not act like a frightened beast.

  • Cam was momentarily spooked—and not "on account of the account," either.