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. [1913 Webster] You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Those cares that haunt the court and town. --Swift. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Foul spirits haunt my resting place. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster] 3. To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . . . is cursed. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime. --Ascham. [1913 Webster] 4. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Haunt thyself to pity. --Wyclif. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] 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
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