Definition of "spectre" [spec•tre]

• Chiefly British Variant of specter. (noun)

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• "Still, as his career continues, Dynamo finds that a certain spectre of the past keeps popping up …"
• "In the dark of night, a chilling sexual spectre is making its way through the house, hovering over the sleeping girl and terrorizing her fragile mother."
• "A spectre is haunting The New York Times Company — the spectre of arithmetic."