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Haunt Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Haunt?
[n] a frequently visited place
[v] haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her" [v] recur constantly and spontaneously to Synonyms | Synonyms for Haunt: ghost | hangout | obsess | repair | resort | stalk | stamping ground Related Terms | Find terms related to Haunt: affect | apparition | appearance | astral | astral spirit | banshee | baths | beset | burden | casino | club | clubhouse | control | crush one | departed spirit | disembodied spirit | dog | duppy | dybbuk | eidolon | exhaust | form | frequent | fret | gambling house | gathering place | ghost | grateful dead | guide | habituate | hang about | hang around | hang out | hang out at | hangout | hant | harass | harry | haunt the memory | health resort | home | hound | idolum | immateriality | incorporeal | incorporeal being | incorporeity | larva | lemures | locality | manes | Masan | materialization | meeting place | obsess | oni | oppress | persecute | phantasm | phantasma | phantom | plague | poltergeist | possess | presence | prey on | purlieu | rallying point | range | rendezvous | resort | resort to | revenant | shade | shadow | shape | shrouded spirit | site | spa | specter | spectral ghost | spirit | spook | springs | sprite | stamping | stamping ground | theophany | tire | torment | trouble | unsubstantiality | vex | vision | visit | walking dead man | wandering soul | watering place | wear out | wear upon one | weary | weigh upon | weight down | worry | wraith | zombie See Also | area | country | follow | gathering place | preoccupy | pursue Haunt In Webster's Dictionary \Haunt\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Haunted}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Haunting}.] [F. hanter; of uncertain origin, perh.
from an assumed LL. ambitare to go about, fr. L. ambire (see
{Ambition}); or cf. Icel. heimta to demand, regain, akin to
heim home (see {Home}). [root]36.]
1. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit
pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.
You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house.
--Shak.
Those cares that haunt the court and town. --Swift.
2. To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost
or apparition.
Foul spirits haunt my resting place. --Fairfax.
3. To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obs.]
That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . .
. is cursed. --Chaucer.
Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.
--Ascham.
4. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.]
Haunt thyself to pity. --Wyclif.
\Haunt\, v. i. To persist in staying or visiting. I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors. --Shak. \Haunt\, n. 1. A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts. Note: In Old English the place occupied by any one as a dwelling or in his business was called a haunt. Note: Often used figuratively. The household nook, The haunt of all affections pure. --Keble. The feeble soul, a haunt of fears. --Tennyson. 2. The habit of resorting to a place. [Obs.] The haunt you have got about the courts. --Arbuthnot. 3. Practice; skill. [Obs.] Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt. --Chaucer. |
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