haunted

Adjective
Synonyms: obsessedpreoccupiedtaken up

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (3)

  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”Synonyms: obsessedpreoccupiedtaken up
  2. showing emotional affliction or disquiet“her expression became progressively more haunted”
  3. inhabited by or as if by apparitions“a haunted house”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
Those cares that haunt the court and town.— Swift.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Foul spirits haunt my resting place.— Fairfax.[1913 Webster]

3.To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . . . is cursed.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]
Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.— Ascham.[1913 Webster]

4.To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Haunt thyself to pity.— Wyclif.[1913 Webster]
Haunted \Haunt"ed\, a. Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost. [1913 Webster]

All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]

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