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
- For example, if you use the word haunt you cannot use haunts.
- Apple iPad and the MAD TV video: Will the name haunt Apple (Video) ...
- Do you think your house of Knowl down there is what you call haunt, my dear? '
- Hubby and I, now do our Christmas shopping on the square in Oxford and my favorite haunt is SB!
- South African-born Alessandro Talevi, making a bold Opera North debut, lets them haunt from the shadows.
- Willie Somers raised his pleading eyes to his face (and many long years after did their expression haunt him), "O Mr. Lambert, please don't go any farther, we shall be over the falls."
- The Cardinal Flower, whose natural haunt is along the banks of streams, and whose spikes are of the most beautiful red, can also be safely transplanted, and will bloom in deep, rich soil equally well in shade or sun and will be very effective among the Ferns.
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