Ghoul

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One who delights in the revolting, morbid, or loathsome.
  • n. A grave robber.
  • n. An evil spirit or demon in Muslim folklore believed to plunder graves and feed on corpses.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A spirit said to feed on corpses.
  • n. A graverobber; a person with an undue interest in death and corpses.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An imaginary evil being supposed among Eastern nations to prey upon human bodies; an ogre.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an evil spirit or ghost
  • n. someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection
  • Hypernym
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    Variant
    ghole   
    Form
    ghoulish   
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