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[ hawn-tid, hahn- ] / ˈhɔn tɪd, ˈhɑn- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR haunted ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveinhabited or frequented by ghosts: a haunted castle. preoccupied, as with an emotion, memory, or idea; obsessed: His haunted imagination gave him no peace. disturbed; distressed; worried: Haunted by doubt he again turned to law books on the subject. Origin of hauntedMiddle English word dating back to 1275–1325; see origin at haunt, -ed2 OTHER WORDS FROM hauntedun·haunt·ed, adjectiveWords nearby hauntedhaul over the coals, haul up, haunch, haunch bone, haunt, haunted, haunting, Hauppauge, Hauptmann, Hauraki Gulf, hauriant Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for hauntedIt’s less haunting — and less haunted — than Hill House, but still a captivating saga of families, grief, and love. Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor is a calm, loving study in how to exorcise your ghosts|Aja Romano|October 9, 2020|Vox He read technical journals about film and haunted the theaters and film production companies. Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST Even though the police and my family and friends believed me, that one voice of doubt is the one that haunted me most. How I Stopped My Rapist|Natasha Alexenko|November 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST Were Israeli soldiers so haunted by what they saw and did in the last Gaza war that they took their own lives? The Ghosts of Gaza: Israel’s Soldier Suicides|Creede Newton|October 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Lotus and the Storm turns out to be a grand, haunted melodrama with elements of camp, delivered in fragmentary reveries. A Different Kind of Vietnam Story|J.T. Price|October 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST Or go to Mougins and get a local realtor to tell you stories of Edith Piaf's haunted house. No Movie Stars, No Red Carpet, But Off-Season Cannes Is Still Magic|Liza Foreman|September 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST Miss Dalrymple then took one of the older servants into confidence, and asked her if the house was haunted. Ghostly Phenomena|Elliot O'Donnell. We parted and went our several ways, leaving the little cloisters to solitude and the ghosts that haunted them. Glories of Spain|Charles W. Wood Her blue eyes burned on the gems with a strange and haunted light. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story|Various And was the four-funnelled, twin-screwed Parana but a ghostly ship bearing a cargo of haunted souls into their earthly purgatory? The Wild Olive|Basil King And to think that this is but one of thousands of cases for ever haunted by their own hideousness, for ever dependent on others. Eighteen Months in the War Zone|Kate John Finzi
British Dictionary definitions for haunted
adjectivefrequented or visited by ghosts (postpositive) obsessed or worried Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to hauntedobsessed |