spook

[US]/spuːk/
[UK]/spuk/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. fantasma
vt. assustar; amedrontar.
Word Forms
Gerúndiospooking
Terceira pessoa do singularspooks
Passado simplesspooked
Particípio passadospooked
Pluralspooks

Phrases & Collocations

spooky

assustador

Example Sentences

Are you afraid of spooks?

Você tem medo de fantasmas?

they spooked a couple of grizzly bears.

Eles assustaram alguns ursos pardos.

<?pcdata the far-right spook will stay a spook for a long time yet. ?>.

<?pcdata O sujeito sinistro de extrema-direita continuará sendo um sujeito sinistro por muito tempo. ?>.

he'll spook if we make any noise.

Ele vai assustar se fizermos algum barulho.

Something in the bushes spooked her horse.

Algo nos arbustos assustou o cavalo dela.

Madonna fell off a horse on the weekend at Long Island when a paparazzo jumped out of the bushes to take a photo and spooked her horse.She was taken to a local hospital.

Madonna caiu de um cavalo no fim de semana em Long Island quando um paparazzi saltou dos arbustos para tirar uma foto e assustou o cavalo dela. Ela foi levada a um hospital local.

Real-world Examples

That financial engineering has recently spooked investors.

Aquela engenharia financeira assustou recentemente os investidores.

Source: CNN Listening Compilation June 2022

No wonder the financial markets were spooked.

Não é de admirar que os mercados financeiros ficaram assustados.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

I mean, it's also great to be spooked again.

Eu quero dizer, também é ótimo se assustar de novo.

Source: Actor Dialogue (Bilingual Selection)

He's not gonna do that unless he's spooked.

Ele não vai fazer isso a menos que esteja assustado.

Source: TV series Person of Interest Season 3

But echoing them would spook business.

Mas ecoá-los assustaria os negócios.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

Meanwhile, the spooked herds stampede up the valley.

Enquanto isso, os rebanhos assustados avançam em estampida pelo vale.

Source: North American Great Plains - Wild New World

What's got you spooked all of a sudden?

O que te assustou de repente?

Source: TV series Person of Interest Season 3

It spooked her and she's hiding.

Isso a assustou e ela está se escondendo.

Source: Modern Family - Season 08

They warned that a debt-heavy tax-cut package would spook investors.

Eles alertaram que um pacote de cortes de impostos com dívidas assustaria os investidores.

Source: Time

But then if something spooks one then only one jumps up.

Mas então, se algo assustar alguém, apenas um pulará.

Source: Actor Dialogue (Bilingual Selection)

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