Definition of "wraith" []

• An apparition of a living person that appears as a portent just before that person's death. (noun)
• The ghost of a dead person. (noun)
• Something shadowy and insubstantial. (noun)

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• "Banquo's wraith, which is invisible to all but Macbeth, is the haunting of an evil conscience."
• "It is not her own betrothal, but mine with Winnie's wraith, that is deluding her crazy brain."
• "* This in the North of Ireland is called wraith, as in"