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haunt definition

haunt (hônt, hänt; for n. 2, usually hant)

transitive verb

  1. to visit (a place) often or continually; frequent
  2. to seek the company or companionship of; run after
  3. to appear or recur repeatedly to, often to the point of obsession memories haunted her
  4. to be associated with; fill the atmosphere of; pervade memories of former gaiety haunt the house

Etymology: ME haunten < OFr hanter, to frequent < Gmc *haimetan (akin to OE hamettan, to domicile) < *haim, home

noun

    1. a place often visited to make the library one's haunt
    2. a lair or feeding place of animals
  2. Dialectal a ghost

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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