as in to visit
to go to or spend time in often
much of her time is spent haunting antique shops in search of unique knobs for the curio cabinets she builds
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as in hangout
a place for spending time or for socializing
one of their favorite after-school haunts is Joe's Pizza
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as in ghost
chiefly dialect
the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people
we heard the local tales of a haunt in the choir loft and of a specter in the graveyard
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as in eerie
fearfully and mysteriously strange or fantastic
the haunting tones of the Highland bagpipes
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as in visiting
to go to or spend time in often
much of her time is spent haunting antique shops in search of unique knobs for the curio cabinets she builds
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Recent Examples of haunt
Ben Travers, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2025
Always Greener, which scored 15 nominations on the annual Brit List, is a high concept script that follows a struggling artist, haunted by past failure, who is given a one-in-a-million chance to become his rich and successful doppelganger from a parallel universe.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
Latria Graham, AFAR Media, 28 Oct. 2025
The ghost of Fingers – who tickled the ivories for decades in the Calico Saloon – returned to his old haunt in a spirit form for the first time this Halloween season with a little help from the Knott’s Scary Farm creative team.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025
Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
Set along the legendary Highway 61 — better known as the Blues Highway, stretching from Nashville, Tennessee, to New Orleans, Louisiana — this essential stop delves into the haunting, soulful sound born from the struggles and resilience of Black communities in the rural Delta.
—Kinsey Gidick, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 3 Nov. 2025
The film has a way of connecting discordant wavelengths — past and future, memory and experience, reality and fiction — that's as existentially haunting as anything in recent genre history.
—Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
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Verb
The premiere builds to an extended parody of sorts, both haunting and hysterical at once, and its black yet bubbly sense of humor only spreads from there.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2025
Always Greener, which scored 15 nominations on the annual Brit List, is a high concept script that follows a struggling artist, haunted by past failure, who is given a one-in-a-million chance to become his rich and successful doppelganger from a parallel universe.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
One of my favorite haunts (and my former workplace) is the grand New York Society Library on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
—Latria Graham, AFAR Media, 28 Oct. 2025
The ghost of Fingers – who tickled the ivories for decades in the Calico Saloon – returned to his old haunt in a spirit form for the first time this Halloween season with a little help from the Knott’s Scary Farm creative team.
—Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
Hind’s voice — fragments of which spread online and were later verified and analyzed by outlets including The Washington Post, Sky News and Forensic Architecture — became one of the most haunting and emblematic testaments of the war in Gaza.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 28 Oct. 2025
Set along the legendary Highway 61 — better known as the Blues Highway, stretching from Nashville, Tennessee, to New Orleans, Louisiana — this essential stop delves into the haunting, soulful sound born from the struggles and resilience of Black communities in the rural Delta.
—Kinsey Gidick, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
The track has been haunting Drake since a certain Compton icon dropped it in May 2024, quickly becoming a cultural phenomenon.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 3 Nov. 2025
The film has a way of connecting discordant wavelengths — past and future, memory and experience, reality and fiction — that's as existentially haunting as anything in recent genre history.
—Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for haunt
Noun
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In metro Detroit, some of these cheap, frill-less dive bars have been hangouts for over a century.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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What does the city council do with the old fascist hangout?—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The ghosts of a 37-0 shutout to Iowa less than a month ago still lingered — the boos that faded into silence, the homecoming crowd that emptied before the fourth quarter, the scoreboard stuck on humiliation.—
Ira Gorawara,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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Pacino stars as the enigmatic titular figure, described as part muse, part ghost of cinema past.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The eerie clip features narration from Cale as Charli awakens in a gloomy house and pours hot candle wax on her body.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
10 Nov. 2025
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Much of the debris had been cleared, which made the houseless lots seem even more eerie.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Each BioLife location is built to resemble a private resort rather than a clinical setting, reflecting Jones’s belief that environment plays an essential role in healing and consistency.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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Green Lake County’s 19,000 residents are predominantly white, churchgoing, and Republican, many of them farming, or working at gas stations and grocery stores, restaurants and lakeside resorts.—
Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Fettel is present as a ghostly apparition.—
Will Borger,
Rolling Stone,
31 Oct. 2025
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Pulse is a ghost story, featuring two interwoven storylines about young Tokyoites who begin to see and hear strange apparitions flitting across their computer screens.—
Katie Rife,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The woman dressed as a spooky ringmaster while her husband played the part of a creepy clown.—
Jordan Greene,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
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None of this would work without Jennings’s unsettling performance as a persuasive tempter who nonetheless seems creepy as hell.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Best Hotels & Resorts Pousada do Vale Just a short walk from Noronha’s historic center, Pousada do Vale is a lush, garden-like refuge with a lovely spa.—
Carla Vianna,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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The 1961 film marked Buñuel’s return to filmmaking in Spain, which was then well into Francisco Franco’s reign as dictator, after more than two decades of taking refuge in the United States and directing features in Mexico.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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In this spirit, as with Bloomsday, there are Midwinter Day marathon readings!—
Diana Arterian,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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The 40th release, however, marks the first time the brand has ever released a tequila—an extra añejo blend put together by a leading name in the agave spirits industry.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Haunt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/haunt. Accessed 9 Dec. 2025.
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