haunt

To haunt is defined as to appear as a ghost, or to visit or appear often.

(verb)

An example of to haunt is seeing visions of a relative who has passed every time you're in their bedroom.
An example of to haunt is going to the same cafe for lunch every day.
An example of to haunt is stalking someone.

See haunt in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb

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

Origin: 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
Dialectal a ghost

See haunt in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb haunt·ed, haunt·ing, haunts

verb, transitive

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.

verb, intransitive

To recur or visit often, especially as a ghost.

noun