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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

... 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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