Synonyms for spook
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1. creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, spooknoun

   someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

   Synonyms:
   wraith, creep, shade, specter, weirdie, ghost, loony, weirdo, nutcase, looney, spectre, crawling, crazy, weirdy, creeping, crawl

2. ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectreverb

   a mental representation of some haunting experience

   "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"

   Synonyms:
   phantasma, phantom, wraith, shade, shadowiness, shadiness, touch, weirdo, weirdy, nuance, weirdie, specter, ghost, tincture, ghostwriter, tint, nicety, apparition, trace, phantasm, tad, spectre, subtlety, tone, creep, fantasm, refinement

3. spookverb

   frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action

   "The noise spooked the horse"

Matched Categories

1. • Frighten
   • Unpleasant Person

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1. spooknoun

   Synonyms:
   ghost, spirit, specter, apparition, phantom, hobgoblin

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1. List of paraphrases for "spook":

   scare, frighten, spy, ghost, startle, shiner

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1. Michael Piwowar:

   I fear that many traps for the unwary are hidden in the regulations, creating potential nightmares for small business owners that fail to place regulatory compliance at the top of their business plans. Such burdens will spook many small businesses from pursuing crowdfunding as a viable path to raising capital.

2. Kamran Bokhari:

   The perpetrators don't have to attack in a large way to spook people who are trying to visit the country. All they need to do is have a few incidents here and there to shape perceptions, oNE-OFF.

3. Alastair Sandler:

   Anything that comes on Twitter is just really noise, I don't think you can use that as an official medium to make global policies, but certainly it's enough to spook the stocks into the weekend. It's a space people will be trying to avoid until the dust settles.

4. Stephen Massocca:

   The wage numbers were a little warm, but that wasn't enough to spook people.

5. Commissioner Michael S. Piwowar:

   The rules will spin a complex web of provisions and requirements for compliance. I fear that many traps for the unwary are hidden in the regulations, creating potential nightmares for small business owners that fail to place regulatory compliance at the top of their business plans, such burdens will spook many small businesses from pursuing crowdfunding as a viable path to raising capital.