单词 | haunt |
释义 | haunt ![]() v. haunt·ed, haunt·ing, haunts v.tr. 1. To inhabit, visit, or appear to in the form of a ghost or other supernatural being. 2. To visit often; frequent: haunted the movie theaters. 3. To come to the mind of continually; obsess: a riddle that haunted me all morning. 4. To be continually present in; pervade: the melancholy that haunts the composer's music. v.intr. To recur or visit often, especially as a ghost. n. 1. A place much frequented. 2. also hant or ha'nt (hănt) or haint (hānt) Chiefly Southern US A ghost or other supernatural being. [Middle English haunten, to frequent, from Old French hanter; see tkei- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] haunter n. |
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