Haunted

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Haunt \Haunt\ (h[aum]nt; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Haunted}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Haunting}.] [F. hanter; of uncertain origin,
     perh. from an assumed LL. ambitare to go about, fr. L. ambire
     (see {Ambition}); or cf. Icel. heimta to demand, regain, akin
     to heim home (see {Home}). [root]36.]
     1. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit


        pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.
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              You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house.
                                                    --Shak.
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              Those cares that haunt the court and town. --Swift.
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     2. 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.
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              Foul spirits haunt my resting place.  --Fairfax.
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     3. To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obs.]
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              That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . .
              . is cursed.                          --Chaucer.
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              Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.
                                                    --Ascham.
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     4. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.]
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              Haunt thyself to pity.                --Wyclif.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Haunted \Haunt"ed\, a.
     Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions;
     frequented by a ghost.
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           All houses wherein men have lived and died
           Are haunted houses.                      --Longfellow.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  haunted
       adj 1: having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with
              something; "became more and more haunted by the stupid
              riddle"; "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" [syn: {obsessed}, {preoccupied}, {taken up(p)}]
       2: showing emotional affliction or disquiet; "her expression
          became progressively more haunted"
       3: inhabited by or as if by apparitions; "a haunted house"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "haunted":
     beset, dogged, fretted, ghost-haunted, ghost-ridden, harassed,
     harried, hounded, mindful, nagged, obsessed, persecuted, plagued,
     possessed, rankled, remembering, specter-haunted, spirit-haunted,
     spooked, spooky, tormented, unable to forget, vexed, worried,
     worried sick, worried stiff