Haunt

Verb

 * 1)  To inhabit, or visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
 * 2)  To make uneasy.
 * The memory of his past failures haunted him.
 * 1)  To stalk, to follow
 * The policeman haunted him, following him everywhere.
 * 1)  To live habitually; to stay, to remain.
 * 2) *1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, John XI:
 * Jesus therfore walked no more openly amonge the iewes: butt went his waye thence vnto a countre ny to a wildernes into a cite called effraym, and there haunted with his disciples.
 * 1) *1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:
 * yonder in that wastefull wildernesse / Huge monsters haunt, and many dangers dwell [...].

Noun

 * 1) A place at which one is regularly found; a hangout.
 * 2) * 1868, Louisa May Alcott, "Kitty's Class Day":
 * Both Jack and Fletcher had graduated the year before, but still took an interest in their old haunts, and patronized the fellows who were not yet through.
 * 1) * 1984, Timothy Loughran and Natalie Angier, "Science: Striking It Rich in Wyoming," Time, 8 Oct.:
 * Wyoming has been a favorite haunt of paleontologists for the past century ever since westering pioneers reported that many vertebrate fossils were almost lying on the ground.
 * 1)  A ghost.
 * 2) *1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 93:
 * ‘Harnts don't wander much ginerally,’ he said. ‘They hand round thar own buryin'-groun' mainly.’
 * 1) A feeding place for animals.

Adjectives for Haunt
genteel; childhood; authenticated; private; familiar; hideous; reptile; undergraduate; classical; cheerful; frequent; gay; frightful; native; brightened; strange; indigenous; delightful; swampy; deserted; weary; unaccustomed; popular; picturesque; mysterious; public; garden; melodious; shaded; inaccessible.

Adverbs for Haunt
bewitchingly; lecherously; dejectedly; privately; hideously; frightfully; indigenously; mysteriously; bewilderingly.

Verbs for Haunt
basket—; bundle—; cart—; cock—; conceal—; consume—; fork—; hook—; load—; market—; mow—; pitch—; preserve—; rake—; press—; spade—; stack—; store—; toss.

Synonyms for Haunt
frequent, visit, attend, return (to), obsess, frighten, disturb, terrorize, persecute, resort, follow, importune.

Thesaurus
Masan, 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, 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

Etymology
From haunten:, from  hanter:, of  origin, probably through  *undefined:, from, from , from. Cognate with hamettan:,  heimta:,  ham:, 🇫🇴 hantin: from the same  source. More at home.

Pronunciation

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Verb

 * Czech: ,
 * Greek:


 * Japanese: (, shutsu shizumu),  (, obake)
 * Swedish: hemsöka


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 * Greek:


 * French: hanter
 * Telugu: వెంటాడు (veMTaaDu)

Noun

 * Greek: (1),  (2)
 * Macedonian: свратилиште (svratílište) (1)


 * Italian: ritrovo (1), fantasma (2)

Anagrams

 * Utahn