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Synonyms
haunt (hônt, hŏnt)

[Middle English haunten, to frequent, from Old French hanter.]

verb: haunt·ed, haunt·ing, haunts. 

transitive verb 

  1. To inhabit, visit, or appear to in the form of a ghost or other supernatural being.
  2. To visit often; frequent: haunted the movie theaters.
  3. To come to the mind of continually; obsess: a riddle that haunted me all morning.
  4. To be continually present in; pervade: the melancholy that haunts the composer's music.

intransitive verb 

To recur or visit often, especially as a ghost.

noun 

  1. A place much frequented.
  2. Chiefly Southern U.S. A ghost or other supernatural being.

derivatives

haunt́er
noun