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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Haunt \Haunt\ (?; 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 You wrong me sir, thus still to haunt my house. --Shak. Those cares that haunt the court and town. --Swift. 2. To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition. Foul spirits haunt my resting place --Fairfax. 3. To practice; to devote one's self to [Obs.] That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . . . is cursed. --Chaucer. Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime. --Ascham. 4. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.] Haunt thyself to pity. --Wyclif. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: haunting adj 1: continually recurring to the mind; "haunting memories"; "the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty"- Claudia Cassidy [syn: {persistent}] 2: having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect; "from two handsome and talented young men to two haunting horrors of disintegration"-Charles Lee
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