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haunted
[ hawn-tid, hahn- ]
adjective
- inhabited or frequented by ghosts:
a haunted castle.
- preoccupied, as with an emotion, memory, or idea; obsessed:
His haunted imagination gave him no peace.
- disturbed; distressed; worried:
Haunted by doubt he again turned to law books on the subject.
haunted
/ ˈhɔːntɪd /
adjective
- frequented or visited by ghosts
- postpositive obsessed or worried
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- un·haunted adjective
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Example Sentences
Despite his efforts to live in the present, he seemed haunted by the specter of his father.
He read technical journals about film and haunted the theaters and film production companies.
Even though the police and my family and friends believed me, that one voice of doubt is the one that haunted me most.
Were Israeli soldiers so haunted by what they saw and did in the last Gaza war that they took their own lives?
The Lotus and the Storm turns out to be a grand, haunted melodrama with elements of camp, delivered in fragmentary reveries.
Alessandro's face haunted him, and also the memory of Ramona's, as she lay tossing and moaning in the wretched Cahuilla hovel.
Mrs. Paula was one of those women that haunted the cheap shops and bargain-counters, and was always in debt.
Pa Babcock affirmed the tale and declared that this was why he had left off working on the haunted farm.
Once, when a boy, he had seen Henry Irving in Faust; he saw the devils on the haunted mountain; he heard their hideous cries.
I should be ashamed that pages, tear-stained and dream-haunted, should fall beneath the eyes of grave, sober-minded folk.
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