to haunt
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5.9
- verb
- /hɔnt/
:
estar embrujado
- I think your house is haunted.
- a haunted house
- haunted by a ghost
- haunted by a specter
So imagine if enough people believe that some old bride haunts an abandoned house, right?
- So imagine if enough people believe that some old bride haunts an abandoned house, right?
- A Texas couple insists their home is being haunted by enough.
- So further down stream of the copper now they are haunted.
- It's documented it's on Wikipedia and he got it's got to be true stabbed by his understudy dead haunts the theatre.
Examples
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Every kid in Haddonfield thinks this place is haunted.
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- Anybody worth their salt knows this area's been haunted by that old woman for years.
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- This house is haunted, Mama.
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A lot of people think the place is haunted.
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Oh yeah, the place was haunted.
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I wonder if it's haunted.
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They say this place is haunted.
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The place is a cemetery, haunted by the ghosts of generations of Musketeers.
Fiction book (1993) -
Tobias told me these woods were haunted by the ghosts of miners.
Fiction book (1992) -
Many believe that the old mansion is haunted by the spirit of its former owner.
Synonyms
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3.7
To stay in a place longer than expected because you do not want to leave
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5.5
To stay hidden and move secretly to watch or frighten people
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The word haunt comes from the old root heim meaning 'home'. People used this idea to say a ghost 'lives' in a place, so to haunt also means a spirit regularly appears there.