hauntverb [ T ]
uk/hɔːnt/us/hɑːnt/haunt verb [ T ] (REPEATEDLY TROUBLE)
B2 to cause repeated suffering or anxiety:
Fighting in Vietnam was an experience that would haunt him for the rest of his life.
30 years after the fire he is still haunted by images of death and destruction.
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- Memories of the semifinal defeat haunted him for the rest of his career.
- His experiences in the prison camp continued to haunt him.
- She was haunted by memories of her unhappy childhood.
- The novel tells the story of a soldier haunted by the events of the war.
- The experience of failure continues to haunt him.
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Making people sad, shocked and upset
- aback
- amiss
- appal
- be laughing on the other side of your face idiom
- bite
- burn
- hit/touch a (raw) nerve idiom
- horrify
- hurt sb's feelings idiom
- hurtful
- it'll (all) end in tears idiom
- laugh
- mess
- nose
- shake
- tear sb apart
- tear sb's heart out idiom
- torture
- traumatize
- twist/turn the knife (in the wound) idiom
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Causing anxiety and worry
haunt verb [ T ] (SPIRIT)
B2 (of a ghost) to appear in a place repeatedly:
A ghostly lady is said to haunt the stairway looking for her children.
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Souls, spirits & ghosts
- apparition
- astral plane
- aura
- chi
- familiar
- ghost
- ghostly
- haunted
- Ouija board
- phantom
- poltergeist
- possessed
- reincarnation
- spectral
- spectre
- spirit
- spiritualism
- spook
- zombie
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hauntnoun [ C ]
uk/hɔːnt/us/hɑːnt/a place often visited:
This bar used to be one of your old haunts, didn't it, Jake?