Haunt | Mean of haunt in English Dictionary
/ˈhɑːnt/
- Verb
- to visit or live in (a place)
- Spirits haunted the house.
- Some people believe that the ghost of an old sea captain haunts the beach.
- to eventually cause problems for (someone) as time passes
- If you ignore the problem, it will come back to haunt you.
- Their failure to plan ahead is now coming back to haunt them.
- to keep coming back to the mind of (someone) especially in a way that makes the person sad or upset
- The tune haunted me all day.
- He was haunted by his memories of the war. [=he could not forget his memories of the war]
- to visit (a place) often
- She spent much of her vacation haunting bookstores and antique shops.
- Noun
- a place that you go to often
- The restaurant became one of her favorite haunts.
- I went back to visit my old childhood haunts. [=the places I often went to when I was a child]
