haunt
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[hɔːnt] [-ɔːnt] [hɑːnt] [-ɑːnt] [hænt] [-ænt] WHaunt
- 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
- NounPLhaunts
- A place at which one is regularly found; a hangout.
- It is a great rock or cliff on the loneliest part of the mountains, and, … is known by the name of the Garden Rock. Near the foot of it is a small lake, the haunt of the solitary bittern, with water-snakes basking in the sun on the leaves of the pond-lilies which lie on the surface.
- (dialect) A ghost.
- A feeding place for animals.
- A place at which one is regularly found; a hangout.
- VerbSGhauntsPRhauntingPT, PPhaunted
- VT To inhabit, or visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
- A couple of ghosts haunt the old, burnt-down house.
- VT To make uneasy, restless.
- The memory of his past failures haunted him.
- VT To stalk, to follow.
- The policeman haunted him, following him everywhere.
- VI (now rare) To live habitually; to stay, to remain.
- VT (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.
- VT (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To practise; to devote oneself to.
- VI To persist in staying or visiting.
- VT To inhabit, or visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- And in “Central Park in the Dark” and her haunting response to “The Unanswered Question,” Sokolow evokes more small-town anomie in spare shifts of ranks, topplings and rises.
- The haunted house was horrifying, from one room to the next I felt more and more like I wasn’t going to survive.
- A specter haunted the cemetery at the old Vasquez manor.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of haunt in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
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Source: Wiktionary
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Grammatically, this word "haunt" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.