verb, noun
verb [VN]
1 if the ghost of a dead person haunts a place, people say that they have seen it there:
A headless rider haunts the country lanes. * I'll come back to haunt you!
2 if sth unpleasant haunts you, it keeps coming to your mind so that you cannot forget it:
The memory of that day still haunts me. * For years she was haunted by guilt.
3 to continue to cause problems for sb for a long time:
That decision came back to haunt him in later life. * She has been haunted by her past during her career.
noun a place that sb visits often or where they spend a lot of time:
Is this one of your usual haunts? * The pub is a favourite haunt of artists.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for haunt is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does haunt appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — haunt appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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