haunt
verb /hɔːnt/
/hɔːnt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they haunt | /hɔːnt/ /hɔːnt/ |
| he / she / it haunts | /hɔːnts/ /hɔːnts/ |
| past simple haunted | /ˈhɔːntɪd/ /ˈhɔːntɪd/ |
| past participle haunted | /ˈhɔːntɪd/ /ˈhɔːntɪd/ |
| -ing form haunting | /ˈhɔːntɪŋ/ /ˈhɔːntɪŋ/ |
- haunt something/somebody 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!
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- reputedly
- supposedly
- come back to
- return to
- haunt somebody if something 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.
Extra Examples- He will be haunted forever by his failed attempt to rescue the children.
- These visions continued to haunt her for many years.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- still
- forever
- continue to
- haunt somebody to continue to cause problems for somebody for a long time
- That decision came back to haunt him.
- She has been haunted by her past during her career.
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘frequent (a place)’): from Old French hanter, of Germanic origin; distantly related to home.