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/hˈɔntəd/ /hˈɔntɪd/ Listen

verb

Haunt v. t. (past & past part. haunted; pres. part. haunting)

To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. "You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house." "Those cares that haunt the court and town."

To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition; said of spirits or ghosts, especially of dead people; as, the murdered man haunts the house where he died. "Foul spirits haunt my resting place."

To practice; to devote one's self to. (Obs.) "That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud... is cursed." "Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime."

To accustom; to habituate. (Obs.) "Haunt thyself to pity."

Haunt v. i. To persist in staying or visiting. "I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors."

adjective

Haunted adj. Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost. "All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses."

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Etymology of 'Haunted'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Haunted" Quotes from Famous Books

... legally the full authority was possessed by the two Powers who had the de facto government. Their opinion did not carry much weight even in Prussia itself, but they seem to have succeeded in convincing the King. Hitherto he had always been haunted by the fear lest, in dispossessing Augustenburg, he would be keeping a German Prince from the throne which was his right, and that to him was a very serious consideration. Now his conscience was set ...

— Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire • James Wycliffe Headlam

... that mother's voice as she uttered those words haunted Mr. Penrose. He heard it in the stillness of the night, and in the quiet of his study; it came floating on the winds as he walked the fields and moors; and would sound in mockery as he, from time to time, declared a Father's ...

— Lancashire Idylls (1898) • Marshall Mather

... pass away in a few minutes, but from that moment Mavra was haunted by a pair of black eyes, whose owner little ...

— The Little Russian Servant • Henri Greville

... Could this be love? The man who was to be her thought, her life, her soul—could this be he—this Jean? Why not? She knew him better than she knew all those who, during the past year, had haunted her for her fortune, and in what she knew of him there was nothing to discourage the love of a good girl. ...

— L'Abbe Constantin, Complete • Ludovic Halevy

... almost fallen a sacrifice," said the Warden, "to the old preference which our English gentry have inherited from their Norman ancestry, of game to man. You had come unintentionally as an intruder into a rich preserve much haunted by poachers, and exposed yourself to the deadly mark of a spring-gun, which had not the wit to distinguish between a harmless traveller and a poacher. At least, such is our conclusion; for our old friend here, (who luckily for you is a great rambler in the woods,) ...

— Doctor Grimshawe's Secret - A Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne

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