haunt  (hônt, hŏnt) 
v.
haunt·ed, haunt·ing, haunts
v.
tr.
To inhabit, visit, or appear to in the form of a ghost or other supernatural being. To visit often; frequent: haunted the movie theaters. To come to the mind of continually; obsess: a riddle that haunted me all morning. To be continually present in; pervade: the melancholy that haunts the composer's music.
v.
intr.
To recur or visit often, especially as a ghost.
n. A place much frequented. also hant or ha'nt (hānt) or haint (hānt) Chiefly Southern U.S. A ghost or other supernatural being.
[Middle English haunten, to frequent, from Old French hanter; see tkei- in Indo-European roots.]
haunt'er n. |
