Dutch-English translations for spook

ghost
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Poor old Barroso here looks like he has seen a ghost. Die arme oude heer Barroso ziet eruit alsof hij een spook heeft gezien! We absolutely must lay the ghost of protectionism to rest. Het spook van het protectionisme moet absoluut bezworen worden. Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is clear that there is a ghost creeping through this debate, the ghost of subsidiarity. Mevrouw de Voorzitter, mijnheer de commissaris, beste collega's, door dit debat sluipt blijkbaar een spook, namelijk het spook van de subsidiariteit.
spookThe building was haunted by a couple of spooksThe big spider gave me a spookHe who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook. — [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Stirner Max Stirner]

shade
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The old oak tree gave shade in the heat of the dayClose the shade, please: its too bright in hereIve painted my room in five lovely shades of pink and chartreuse
spectre/specter
wraith
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