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# haunt

verb (haunt, haunts, haunted, haunting); noun (a haunt, haunts)

«haunt» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. In stories, a ghost haunts a place or person when it appears there again and again. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/#m1)
2. If a memory or worry haunts you, you keep thinking about it and it upsets you. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/#m2)
3. To haunt a place means to go there very often. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/#m3)
4. (noun) A haunt is a place someone visits often, like a favourite café. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/#m4)

### In the lessons

In stories and Halloween, haunted houses and castles are full of ghosts. In everyday life and stories, a bad mistake can «come back to haunt you». A «favourite haunt» is a place you love to go. Ghosts are not proven to be real; haunted-house tales are for fun and spooky stories. Phrases: «haunted house», «come back to haunt», «favourite haunt».

### Examples

- They say a ghost haunts the old castle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/#x1)
- We went to a haunted house at the fair. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/#x2)
- The sad song haunted me for days. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/#x3)
- That silly mistake came back to haunt him. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/#x4)
- The park is our favourite haunt after school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/#x5)
- Pirates once haunted these seas. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/#x6)
- The memory of the storm still haunts her. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/#x7)

### Note

Regular verb: haunted (also an adjective: «a haunted house»). Pronounced «hawnt». Adjective: haunting (beautiful and sad, staying in your mind: «a haunting tune»). Science has found no evidence that ghosts exist; creaks and cold spots usually have ordinary causes.

## In Jewish tradition

Here it means a place where a person often goes, not a ghost. In the primary lessons: In stories and Halloween, haunted houses and castles are full of ghosts. In everyday life and stories, a bad mistake can «come back to haunt you». A «favourite haunt» is a place you love to go. Ghosts are not proven to be real; haunted-house tales are for fun and spooky stories. Phrases: «haunted house», «come back to haunt», «favourite haunt».

### Examples

- and to them that were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt. (Prophets 1SA.30.31, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/haunt/#x1)
- Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there; for it is told me that he dealeth very subtly. (Prophets 1SA.23.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/haunt/#x2)

### Note

Regular verb: haunted (also an adjective: «a haunted house»). Pronounced «hawnt». Adjective: haunting (beautiful and sad, staying in your mind: «a haunting tune»). Science has found no evidence that ghosts exist; creaks and cold spots usually have ordinary causes.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «haunt» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«haunt» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/haunt.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «haunt» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/H/haunt/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«haunt» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/haunt.html) on Mova free.