gast

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
6
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/ɡɑːst/
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/ɡɑːst/ · /ɡæst/

Definition of gast

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (obsolete)To frighten.
    “[H]ee charges home my vnprouided body, lancht mine arme, but when he ſaw my beſt alarumd ſpirits, bould in the quarrels, rights, rouſd to the encounter, or whether gaſted by the noyſe I made, but ſodainly he fled.”
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verb

  1. (obsolete)To frighten.
    “[H]ee charges home my vnprouided body, lancht mine arme, but when he ſaw my beſt alarumd ſpirits, bould in the quarrels, rights, rouſd to the encounter, or whether gaſted by the noyſe I made, but ſodainly he fled.”

name

  1. A surname.

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Etymology

From Middle English gasten, from Old English gǣstan, from Proto-Germanic *gaistijaną. Also spelled ghast due to association with ghost.

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