haunt
verb
haunted;
haunting;
haunts
Definition of haunt
(Entry 1 of 2)
1a
: to visit often : frequent
spends a lot of time haunting bookstores
b
: to continually seek the company of
haunting celebrities impostors that haunt the official in foreign ports— Van Wyck Brooks
2a
: to have a disquieting or harmful effect on : trouble
problems we ignore now will come back to haunt us
b
: to recur constantly and spontaneously to
the tune haunted her
c
: to reappear continually in
a sense of tension that haunts his writing
3
: to visit or inhabit as a ghost
believed that the house was haunted Spirits are supposed to haunt the places where their bodies most resorted …— Charles Dickens
1
: to stay around or persist : linger
a haunting fragrance
2
: to appear habitually as a ghost
not far from … where she haunted appeared for a short time a much more remarkable spirit— W. B. Yeats
haunt
nounDefinition of haunt (Entry 2 of 2)
1
: a place habitually frequented
a favorite haunt of college kids
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