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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
haunt
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a haunting melody (=used about a beautiful melody, especially one that is rather sad and which you remember for a long time)
▪ He began to play a soulful, haunting melody.
be haunted by the memory of sth (=be unable to forget something unhappy)
▪ He is haunted by memories of his unhappy childhood.
ghost...haunts (=often appears in)
▪ They say the young girl’s ghost still haunts the house.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
death
▪ Images of death and violence haunt the story.
▪ The mystery surrounding his death still haunts his family.
▪ Could he have been a signalman who met an unfortunate death and still haunts the place of his end?
▪ Turbulence and violent death haunted his adolescence just as repression and hard tack had besieged his childhood.
▪ Since we had been back in Reine, Jean-Claude had stopped speaking of Montaine's death as if it haunted him unduly.
dream
▪ It had haunted his dreams for eight years.
▪ It haunted his dreams, controlled his waking hours, held him captive.
▪ It is a haunting, dream-like painting, in which we are given a kind of omnipotence.
▪ I know they will come back to haunt me in my dreams.
▪ Goose had haunted his dreams for ten days.
▪ A construction worker in the year 2084 is haunted by recurring dreams of a previous existence on Mars.
▪ In the north the Witch King stirs once more and the Sword of Khaine haunts the dreams of warriors.
▪ Magic: it lubricates the gap between what we can see and understand, and what unhappy feelings haunt our dreams.
fear
▪ Mr Milosevic is fighting for his political survival after a vicious campaign tainted by intimidation and haunted by fears of electoral fraud.
▪ His father, haunted by the financial fears of a Depression childhood, worked two jobs.
▪ They were haunted by the fear of another Dunkirk and were anxious to remain strong in the Middle East.
▪ I used to be haunted by fear of thieves, ghosts, and serpents.
▪ Behind the facade of hope and optimism, there remained the haunting fear of poverty, inequality and insecurity.
ghost
▪ The ghosts of retired colonels haunt some of Torquay's menus.
▪ Famous ghosts haunted even the wastebaskets.
▪ Mermaids have been sighted there and a ghost haunts a derelict bothy near the loch.
▪ She moved through the rooms of her life as if she were a ghost haunting the sites of her previous life.
▪ In this passage, as in the Kipling story, food runs out and three ghosts haunt the seamen.
▪ They say people who die sudden, violent deaths are most likely to become ghosts and haunt the earth.
▪ Kirkgrim A GHOST thought to haunt churches, where its appearance was an ill omen.
▪ Most notable is the GHOST named Hob who haunted several of the rivers in Yorkshire.
house
▪ She haunts this house, you know.
▪ Alone with her daughter in a haunted house she managed every damn thing.
▪ Ancient spirits haunt an old Georgetown house and terrify the current inhabitants in this chilling tale of murder and passion.
▪ The game drops you off in the lobby of the haunted house, which contains some great works of art.
memory
▪ Though it is 11 years ago the memory of it still haunts me.
▪ Balkan Notes 6: Long after the war, the memories of the conflict haunt Bosnia's population.
▪ A memory came back to haunt him: the cold-blooded murder of a soldier on a bleak snow-covered hillside.
■ VERB
come
▪ Memories of blood-red wine and cruelly glinting shards of glass came back to haunt her.
▪ And it will come back to haunt you.
▪ I know they will come back to haunt me in my dreams.
▪ The ghost of the tennis ball is coming to haunt the man.
▪ Male speaker Have the faces of the dead ever come back to haunt you?
▪ Those losses are coming back to haunt us now.
▪ The recollection of those whispered words came rushing back to haunt her.
▪ The remembered odor of perfume and powder of woman came back, haunting her, filling her.
return
▪ It isn't about the dead hand of the past, the unsettled guilt-edged accounts of history returning to haunt the present.
▪ Fred returns to haunt the nightmares of teenagers and to kill them while they sleep and dream.
▪ His answers would return to haunt him.
▪ If the politicians flunk change this time, the issue of electoral reform will return to haunt them.
▪ Was he a spectre returning to haunt Fleury?
▪ But the phantoms of boards and unplayed moves gradually return to haunt Luzhin, threatening his sanity.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
haunted expression/look
▪ A sleepless night had added to her pallor and the haunted look in her eyes.
▪ It still had the gaunt, haunted look that had so put Meg off before.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All your mistakes will come back to haunt you.
▪ Legends say the building is haunted by ghosts.
▪ Memories of the war still haunt her.
▪ People say the house is haunted by a former slave.
▪ The ghost of the murdered prince still haunts the castle.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All said the events still haunt them.
▪ Memories of blood-red wine and cruelly glinting shards of glass came back to haunt her.
▪ The ghosts of retired colonels haunt some of Torquay's menus.
▪ The images of these hopeless, hungry people haunted her, filling her with outrage.
▪ The leaders remain haunted by the forces of dissent they ordered the army to crush.
▪ Yet she, like all Republican members of the House, remains haunted by his presence.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
favourite
▪ On this route you will be able to visit the Wasdale Head Inn, a once favourite haunt of rock climbers.
▪ They had already out guessed me, by staking out my favourite haunt.
▪ My list of favourite haunts is purely personal and certainly not all-embracing.
▪ Whilst living at Bedford Gardens he began taking Bobby Hunt around his favourite haunts.
▪ It's a favourite haunt for many backbenchers.
▪ A favourite haunt of telly aristocracy is Ilha de Caras-the Island of Faces-a private isle for celebrities.
▪ The Drummond Hotel A favourite haunt of the literati.
old
▪ Wise men thought that he should not be too near old haunts and old friends.
▪ I became more and more of a recluse, avoiding our old haunts for fear of running into him.
▪ And there are signs that on one river the otter is already moving back into its old haunts.
▪ His own rehearsals resumed soon after the first Y concert, at most of the old haunts.
▪ Mr Boesky's return to his old haunts comes with four months of his sentence still to run.
▪ Last summer, with much excitement, we revisited our old haunt.
▪ The other day I went back into the city to walk round some of my old haunts.
▪ She would have been tempted to visit all of Montaine's old haunts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a local writers' haunt
▪ Cafes like "Les Deux Magots" were once the favourite haunts of French artists and intellectuals.
▪ Johnson will be revisting all his old haunts in Washington.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And there are signs that on one river the otter is already moving back into its old haunts.
▪ It is a coastline that can be enjoyed throughout the year and is by no means an exclusively summertime haunt.
▪ It was, and is, the haunt of fashionable intellectuals.
▪ Last summer, with much excitement, we revisited our old haunt.
▪ Naturally a haunt of rugger enthusiasts.
▪ On this route you will be able to visit the Wasdale Head Inn, a once favourite haunt of rock climbers.
▪ Running parallel to Princes Street, this narrow thoroughfare is a convivial haunt full of pubs of character, boutiques and restaurants.
▪ The other day I went back into the city to walk round some of my old haunts.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Haunt

Haunt \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.

Haunt

Haunt \Haunt\ (h[aum]nt; 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; -- said of spirits or ghosts, especially of dead people; as, the murdered man haunts the house where he died.

    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

Haunt \Haunt\, v. i. To persist in staying or visiting.

I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors.
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
haunt

early 13c., "to practice habitually, busy oneself with, take part in," from Old French hanter "to frequent, resort to, be familiar with" (12c.), probably from Old Norse heimta "bring home," from Proto-Germanic *haimat-janan, from *haimaz- (see home). Meaning "to frequent (a place)" is c.1300 in English. Use in reference to a spirit returning to the house where it had lived perhaps was in Proto-Germanic, but it was reinforced by Shakespeare's plays, and it is first recorded 1590 in "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Related: Haunted; haunting. Middle English hauntingly meant "frequently;" sense of "so as to haunt one's thoughts or memory" is from 1859.

haunt

"place frequently visited," c.1300, also in Middle English, "habit, custom" (early 14c.), from haunt (v.). The meaning "spirit that haunts a place, ghost" is first recorded 1843, originally in stereotypical U.S. black speech.

Wiktionary
haunt

n. 1 A place at which one is regularly found; a hangout. 2 (context dialect English) A ghost. 3 A feeding place for animals.''Oxford English Dictionary'', 2nd ed., 1989. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To inhabit, or visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts). 2 (context transitive English) To make uneasy, restless. 3 (context transitive English) To stalk, to follow 4 (context intransitive now rare English) To live habitually; to stay, to remain. 5 (context transitive UK dialectal Northern England Scotland English) To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to. 6 (context transitive UK dialectal Northern England Scotland English) To practise; to devote oneself to. 7 (context intransitive English) To persist in staying or visiting.

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WordNet
haunt

  1. n. a frequently visited place [syn: hangout, resort, repair, stamping ground]

  2. v. follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to; "her ex-boyfriend stalked her"; "the ghost of her mother haunted her" [syn: stalk]

  3. haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her" [syn: obsess, ghost]

  4. be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place; "She haunts the ballet" [syn: frequent]

Wikipedia
Haunt

Haunt may refer to:

  • Haunt (comics), comic book character and series
  • Haunt (video game), 2011 video game
  • HAUNT, computer game
  • Haunt (film), a 2013 horror film by Mac Carter
  • Haunt (EP), an EP by Bastille
  • "Haunt", song by Banks from her album The Altar
Haunt (comics)

Haunt is a fictional comic book superhero who appeared in a self-titled ongoing series published by Image Comics. Created by Todd McFarlane and Robert Kirkman, the series debuted in October 2009 and ended in December 2012 after 28 issues. The comic was originally written by Kirkman with pencils by Ryan Ottley, layouts by Greg Capullo, and inks by McFarlane. Joe Casey and Nathan Fox took over as the book's creative team as of Haunt #19.

The book's eponymous main character is the merged form of Catholic priest Daniel Kilgore, and the ghost of his murdered secret agent brother, Kurt.

Haunt (video game)

Haunt is a horror-themed adventure game developed by NanaOn-Sha and Zoë Mode, and published by Microsoft Studios. It was made available for download worldwide on the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade on January 18, 2012. The game requires the Kinect peripheral.

Haunt (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the haunt is a type of undead.

Haunt (film)

Haunt is a 2013 horror film by Mac Carter and his feature film directorial debut. The film was first released on November 6, 2013 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and was later released on video on demand on February 7, 2014. Haunt stars Harrison Gilbertson as a teenager who moves into a new house and goes through not only a sexual awakening but also a terrifying haunting.

Haunt (EP)

Haunt is an EP by English indie pop band Bastille. It was released exclusively to the United States on May 2013 digitally and July 2013 physically. It features three songs from their debut album Bad Blood. It also features a demo track, the title track of the EP, that was originally the B-side to the " Bad Blood" single. The EP peaked at #104 in the Billboard 200 and number one in the Top Heatseekers chart.

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Usage examples of "haunt".

Kill the rogue that had killed Aby and haunted the convoy down the mountain.

Evidence place was the haunt of a girl wanted as accessary to burglary and murder.

I segued into the second movement, that sense of bright expectation replaced by the slow, haunting strains of the Adagio, at once lyrical and sad -- mirroring the turns my own life had taken, the shifting harmonies sounding to me like the raised voices of ghosts, of echoes.

Then I wondered whether the pool before me had been the haunt of the afanc, considered both as crocodile and beaver.

Aye as I went, that maiden who had reared The torch of Truth afar, of whose high deeds The Hermit in his pilgrimage had heard, Haunted my thoughts.

I spared little time away from that book, and studied in it incessantly the ways and windings of magic, till I could hold communication with Genii, and wield charms to summon them, and utter spells that subdue them, discovering the haunts of talismans that enthral Afrites and are powerful among men.

Even in the city, they sang in the ailanthus trees, haunting and familiar.

The Animally hills, the Neilgherries, Wynaad, Coorg, the Bababooden hills, the Mahableshwar hills, are all favourite haunts of this fine animal.

Downward they fled, From under the haunted roof, To the valley aquake with the tread Of an iron-resounding hoof, As of legions of thunderful horse Broken loose and in line tramping hard.

The last time I talked to them, they tried to convince me Argali is haunted.

Thus, while designer steroids are likely to haunt athletics for years to come, this is a fight the anti-doping agencies will eventually win, as dopers run out of drugs that not only work, but also evade an ever-more-sophisticated set of tests.

The souls of men who have been killed, but whose death has not been avenged, are supposed to haunt the village.

Among these reliefs were fabulous monsters of abhorrent grotesqueness and malignity--half ichthyic and half batrachian in suggestion--which one could not dissociate from a certain haunting and uncomfortable sense of pseudomemory, as if they called up some image from deep cells and tissues whose retentive functions are wholly primal and awesomely ancestral.

After resting a few moments, Huon bade Sherasmin lead the way into the neighboring forest, although his guide and mentor again strove to dissuade him from crossing it by explaining that the forest was haunted by a goblin who could change men into beasts.

For even the birds of Ares that haunted the desert isle beforetime, not even them did we find.