beghost
To endow with a spirit or ghost; haunt.
Verb
- To endow with a spirit or ghost; haunt.
- Was Hamlet's armour beghosted too? - 1910, Charles Francis Keary, The pursuit of reason:
- For two centuries or more Littlecote, which is near Hungerford, was owned by the Darrell family, and it was they who finally beghosted not only the house but also the neighbourhood — even as far as the Hungerford to...
- Later she remembered them as ensorcelled houses; beghosted by their occupants' fears of disappointment, by the memories of their lives and other lives they might have had. - 1989, Ronald Frame, Penelope's hat:
- To make a ghost of; teach (one) how to play a ghost.
Origin
From be- + ghost. Compare bespirit, beghast.