to haunt

43 3.9

To visit a place often as a habit

: frecuentar

Examples

As a child, I would often haunt the local library, devouring every book I could find.
My friends and I used to haunt the old arcade after school, playing games for hours.
But classes certainly still do haunt us, right?
It's not that interesting, but it will come maybe to haunt us later.
Our actions or non actions eventually come back to haunt us no matter where we are.
OK, Laura, this one might actually haunt me the most.
I'm sure that, you know, it's going to come back to haunt me when he's in therapy.
Electronic documents have come back to haunt a number of firms involved in high-stakes litigation.

Academic text (2003)
A woman's passion for the wrong man starts a cycle of violence that haunts a family for generations.

Fiction book (2002)
Because without that, if it hasn't been resolved, it will come back to haunt y'all, plain and simple.

to frequent

vsto haunt

49 3.2

To visit a place often, for example a coffee shop or club

is the same but stresses habitual visits as a repeated personal routine

to avoid

∞ 1.0

To stay away from something or not do it to stop something bad from happening

to haunt

43 3.9

to visit

∞ 1.0

to drop by

206 2.5

haunt infinitive

haunted past

haunted past participle

haunting present participle

haunts third person singular

Haunt comes from the old root heim meaning 'home', so to haunt a place is to go there so often that it becomes like your home.