haunt

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  1. transitive verb To inhabit, visit, or appear to in the form of a ghost or other supernatural being.
  2. transitive verb To visit often; frequent: haunted the movie theaters.
  3. transitive verb To come to the mind of continually; obsess: a riddle that haunted me all morning.
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  • Now the whole question of "haunt"--haunted spots, haunted houses, and so forth--has always seemed to me to be utterly unsolved, and to be neither proved nor disproved to a satisfactory degree. —  Collected Stories
  • I think Slots-A-Fun was the only place not mentioned as a possible Jackson haunt, and that's only because Slots-A-Fun lacks a showroom (but I believe there is a chimp named Bubbles who deals craps down there). —  Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
  • (It's not the only amnesiac hotel room story I'm told over drinks and salmon rolls at west Queen west hipster haunt, the Drake Hotel). —  ! Exclaim.ca - News
  • For example, if you use the word haunt you cannot use haunts. —  Stainless Steel Droppings
  • To recruit a cast and crew for the haunt, Wright took up the "street team" approach, posting on social networking sites and creative community sites like MindHub, long before any actual work began. —  Fresno Famous - Discover local life
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haunt:   haunting ·  haunts ·  haunted
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English haunten, to frequent, from Old French hanter; see tkei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also dial. hant; from Middle English haunten, hanten, frequent, use, employ, from Old French hanter, French hanter, haunt, frequent, resort unto, to be familiar with; origin unknown, and variously guessed at: (1) from Middle Latin *ambitare, go about, freq. of Latin ambire, go about (see ambient, ambition); (2) from Latin habitare, dwell (see habit, v., inhabit); (3) from Breton henti, frequent, which, if not itself from the F., appears to be derived from Breton hent, a way, road, path; (4) from Icelandic heimta, draw, pull, claim, crave, literally fetch home, from heim, home. None of these guesses is satisfactory; the 4th is certainly wrong.
  2. Also dial. hant; from haunt, v.
 

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