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UK
/ɹˈeɪθ/
]
NOUN
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a mental representation of some haunting experience
it aroused specters from his past
he looked like he had seen a ghost
How To Use wraith In A Sentence
- The wandering wraiths, addicts and drunks that you see around town didn't just come about out of the blue - they were produced by the education system.
- His St. Petersburg is another "Unreal City" whose wraithlike inhabitants leave hardly a smudge where they've passed. A Master of Technique
- Her illegitimate position has rendered her wraithlike and insubstantial, almost disembodied.
- No trace, only my cigarette smoke, hovering like a wraith, betrayed my presence by leaving the shadow of its scent as it passed through drab walls.
- The faintest noise, it sounded like the creeping of some wraith.
- The wraiths and phantoms creep under your carpets and between the warp and weft of fabric, they lurk in wardrobes and lie flat under drawer-liners.
- Even if he had some kind of weird pseudo consciousness it would be no more than that of a wraith; nothing you couldn't override. SANDS OF TIME
- Through the veil she saw the blink of gold, the flash of a silver ring on a pale wraith's finger.
- Once inside the building, both Evoke and Max could feel the spirits and wraiths, but Evoke could feel the more powerful ones.
- She becomes daily more insubstantial, her figure wraithlike.