haunt
IPA: hˈɔnt
noun
- A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout.
- (dialect) A ghost.
- A lair or feeding place of animals.
verb
- (transitive) To inhabit or to visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
- (transitive) To make uneasy, restless.
- (transitive) To stalk; to follow.
- (intransitive, now rare) To live habitually; to stay, to remain.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To practise; to devote oneself to.
- (intransitive) To persist in staying or visiting.
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Examples of "haunt" in Sentences
- The haunted house is spooky.
- The insomnia now is haunting me.
- The men execrated the haunted house.
- The old house is said to be haunted.
- The road was once the haunt of highwaymen.
- Seymour was of the belief that the homestead was haunted.
- The ghost of acrobat Louis Borsalino is said to haunt the theatre.
- This book also included the haunting ghost and the sagacious ghost.
- But most of all beware of the ghosts and ghouls that haunt the factory
- The ghost of the tormented ape is said to haunt the castle to this day.
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