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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Frequently visited or resorted to by apparitions or the shades of the dead; visited by a ghost: as, a haunted house.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.
  • adjective Obsessed (by an idea, threat, etc.).
  • adjective Showing a feeling of being disturbed.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of haunt.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective showing emotional affliction or disquiet
  • adjective having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something
  • adjective inhabited by or as if by apparitions

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