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HAUNT
haunt, hangout, resort, repair, stamping ground
(noun) a frequently visited place
haunt, obsess, ghost
(verb) haunt like a ghost; pursue; “Fear of illness haunts her”
frequent, haunt
(verb) be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place; “She haunts the ballet”
haunt, stalk
(verb) follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to; “her ex-boyfriend stalked her”; “the ghost of her mother haunted her”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
haunt (third-person singular simple present haunts, present participle haunting, simple past and past participle haunted)
(transitive) To inhabit, or 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.
Synonyms
• (to make uneasy): nag
• (to live habitually): live, dwell; See also reside
Noun
haunt (plural haunts)
A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout.
(dialect) A ghost.
A feeding place for animals.
Anagrams
• Utahn, unhat
Source: Wiktionary
Haunt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Haunting.] Etym: [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). sq. root36.]
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.
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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