spook

1. 1.

   frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action

   “The noise spooked the horse”

   Broaderfrighten

Other forms of spook

plural

spooks·

past tense

spooked·

present participle

spooking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about spook

What does spook mean?

spook means "someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spook?

spook has 1 syllable: spook. In IPA it is /ˈspuk/.

What is another word for spook?

Close synonyms include creep, weirdo, weirdie, weirdy, ghost. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spook a common word?

spook is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.