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Haunted   /hˈɔntəd/  /hˈɔntɪd/   Listen
Haunted

adjective
1.
Having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something.  Synonyms: obsessed, preoccupied, taken up.  "Was absolutely obsessed with the girl" , "Got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children" , "He was taken up in worry for the old woman"
2.
Showing emotional affliction or disquiet.
3.
Inhabited by or as if by apparitions.



Haunt

verb
(past & past part. haunted; pres. part. haunting)
1.
Follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to.  Synonym: stalk.  "The ghost of her mother haunted her"
2.
Haunt like a ghost; pursue.  Synonyms: ghost, obsess.
3.
Be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place.  Synonym: frequent.






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"Haunted" Quotes from Famous Books



... soul, long harboring fears and woes Within a haunted breast. Haste but to meet your lowly Lord, And he ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 - A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics • Various

... animals, and even human beings, who were totally invisible, but who still retained their form, their palpability, and all the powers and functions of life. I had heard of houses haunted by invisible animals; I had read De Kay's story of the maiden Manmat'ha, whose coming her lover perceived by the parting of the tall grain in the field of ripe wheat through which she passed, but whose form, although it might be folded in his arms, was yet as invisible to his sight as the summer ...
— The Stories of the Three Burglars • Frank Richard Stockton

... one's probably a local, the other a stranger, and the local was probably seeing his friend part of the way home, and incidentally showing him one of the sights of the neighborhood. There are stories about this old den, you know—ancient traditions. It's said to be haunted, and what not." ...
— The Secret of the Tower • Hope, Anthony

... why men struggled so about these things when all is so transient and incomprehensible—but he remembered her as he had last seen her, and all his doubts vanished—not because she had answered the questions that had haunted him, but because his conception of her transferred him instantly to another, a brighter, realm of spiritual activity in which no one could be justified or guilty—a realm of beauty and love which it was worth living for. ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy

... and several people were made very happy by a bit of spring left at their doors by the May elves who haunted the town that night playing all sorts of pranks. Such a twanging of bells and rapping of knockers; such a scampering of feet in the dark; such droll collisions as boys came racing round corners, or girls ...
— Jack and Jill • Louisa May Alcott


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