HOW TO PRONOUNCE
spectre
/ˈspɛktɚ/
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What does spectre mean?
noun
- UK and Australia standard spelling of specter.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈspɛktɚ/
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I walked about the isle like a restless spectre, separated from all it loved and miserable in the separation.
He could put off the consideration of any particular spectre till the matter had become old and softened by time.
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How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted spectre, beset his very path!
It may be that his pathway through life was haunted thus by a spectre that had stolen out from among his thoughts.
Under his very eyes, unheard-of vision, he had a sort of representation of the most horrible moment of his life, enacted by his spectre.