phantom

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Basit İngilizce açıklama: Seeming to exist or be present, although it is not actually there.

• The company listed phantom employees.
• He felt phantom pain in his missing hand.
• Investigators found payments to several phantom suppliers.

Eş anlamlılar: nonexistent, imaginary, fictitious

Zıt anlamlılar: real

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: phantom limb, phantom pain, phantom employee

hayalet

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Basit İngilizce açıklama: A ghost, or a strange figure that seems to appear but is not physically there.

• A phantom appeared in the hall.
• She believed the castle was haunted by a phantom.
• The pale phantoms vanished as the sun rose.

Eş anlamlılar: ghost, apparition

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: a pale phantom, phantom of someone, a mysterious phantom