1.
[syn: haunted, obsessed, preoccupied, taken up(p)]
2. showing emotional affliction or disquiet;
- Example: "her expression became progressively more haunted"
3. inhabited by or as if by apparitions;
- Example: "a haunted house"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Haunt \Haunt\ (h[aum]nt; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haunted; p.
pr. & vb. n. Haunting.] [F. hanter; of uncertain origin,
perh. from an assumed LL. ambitare to go about, fr. L. ambire
(see Ambition); or cf. Icel. heimta to demand, regain, akin
to heim home (see Home). [root]36.]
1. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit
pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.
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You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house.
--Shak.
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Those cares that haunt the court and town. --Swift.
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2. To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost
or apparition; -- said of spirits or ghosts, especially of
dead people; as, the murdered man haunts the house where
he died.
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Foul spirits haunt my resting place. --Fairfax.
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3. To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obs.]
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That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . .
. is cursed. --Chaucer.
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Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.
--Ascham.
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4. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.]
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Haunt thyself to pity. --Wyclif.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Haunted \Haunt"ed\, a.
Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions;
frequented by a ghost.
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All houses wherein men have lived and died
Are haunted houses. --Longfellow.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
haunted
adj 1: having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with
something; "became more and more haunted by the stupid
riddle"; "was absolutely obsessed with the girl"; "got no
help from his wife who was preoccupied with the
children"; "he was taken up in worry for the old woman"
[syn: haunted, obsessed, preoccupied, taken
up(p)]
2: showing emotional affliction or disquiet; "her expression
became progressively more haunted"
3: inhabited by or as if by apparitions; "a haunted house"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "haunted":
beset, dogged, fretted, ghost-haunted, ghost-ridden, harassed,
harried, hounded, mindful, nagged, obsessed, persecuted, plagued,
possessed, rankled, remembering, specter-haunted, spirit-haunted,
spooked, spooky, tormented, unable to forget, vexed, worried,
worried sick, worried stiff