haunted; haunting; haunts
1
a
: 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
2
a
: 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 Hillside Gate, where she haunted, appeared for a short time a much more remarkable spirit.—W. B. Yeats
haunter
noun
1
: a place habitually frequented
a favorite haunt of college kids
2
chiefly dialectal
: ghost
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