haunt

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

haunt [haunt haunts haunted haunting] verb, noun BrE [hɔːnt] NAmE [hɔːnt]
verb
1. ~ sth/sb if the ↑ghost of a dead person haunts a place, people say that they have seen it there
•A headless rider haunts the country lanes.
•I'll come back to haunt you!
2. ~ sb if sth unpleasant haunts you, it keeps coming to your mind so that you cannot forget it
•The memory of that day still haunts me.
•For years she was haunted by guilt.
3. ~ sb to continue to cause problems for sb for a long time
•That decision came back to haunt him.
•She has been haunted by her past during her career.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘frequent (a place)’): from Old French hanter, of Germanic origin; distantly related to ↑home.

Example Bank:
•He said he would come back to haunt her.
•He will be haunted forever by his failed attempt to rescue the children.
•That decision came back to haunt him in later life.
•These visions continued to haunt her for many years.
•a Norman castle which is reputedly haunted
•the great fear that still haunts her

 
noun
a place that sb visits often or where they spend a lot of time
•The pub is a favourite haunt of artists.

Word Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘frequent (a place)’): from Old French hanter, of Germanic origin; distantly related to ↑home.

Example Bank:
•We've been back to some of our old haunts.
•Is this one of your usual haunts?

 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  hangout, resort, repair, stamping ground, frequent, obsess, ghost, stalk