haunt

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To inhabit, visit, or appear to in the form of a ghost or other supernatural being.
2. v. To visit often; frequent: haunted the movie theaters.
3. v. To come to the mind of continually; obsess: a riddle that haunted me all morning.
4. v. To be continually present in; pervade: the melancholy that haunts the composer's music.
5. v. To recur or visit often, especially as a ghost.
6. n. A place much frequented.
7. n. Chiefly Southern U.S. A ghost or other supernatural being.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To frequent or visit; resort to much or often, or be much about; visit customarily.
2. To come or recur to persistently, so as not to be prevented or driven away; attend or accompany so constantly as to be annoying or offensive; intrude upon continually.
3. Specifically, to reappear frequently to after death; visit habitually in a disembodied state, as a supposed spirit, ghost, or specter.
4. To devote one's self to; practise; pursue; use.
5. To be much about; be present often or persistently; go or visit often; resort.
6. To reappear, as a disembodied spirit.
7. n. A place of frequent resort or visitation; a place in which any being, or, figuratively, some quality or characteristic, is commonly manifested or seen.
8. n. A limited region assigned to or owned by one for his habitation or the practice of his profession; a district.
9. n. The act, habit, or custom of resorting to a place.
10. n. Custom; practice; skill.
11. n. A disembodied spirit supposed to haunt a certain place; a ghost.

Wiktionary

1. v. To inhabit, or visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
2. v. To make uneasy.
3. v. To stalk, to follow
4. v. To live habitually; to stay, to remain.
5. n. A place at which one is regularly found; a hangout.
6. n. A ghost.
7. n. A feeding place for animals.Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed, 1989.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.
2. v. To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition; -- said of spirits or ghosts, especially of dead people.
3. v. To practice; to devote one's self to.
4. v. To accustom; to habituate.
5. v. To persist in staying or visiting.
6. n. A place to which one frequently resorts
7. n. The habit of resorting to a place.
8. n. Practice; skill.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to
2. n. a frequently visited place
3. v. haunt like a ghost; pursue.
4. v. be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place