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Haunt Person Long Period Time Haunted Regularly Ghost

word haunt
definition
verb
If something unpleasant haunts you, you keep thinking or worrying about it over a long period of time.
The decision to leave her children now haunts her.
He would always be haunted by that scene in Well Park.
Something that haunts a person or organization regularly causes them problems over a long period of time.
The stigma of being a bankrupt is likely to haunt him for the rest of his life.
A ghost or spirit that haunts a place or a person regularly appears in the place, or is seen by the person and frightens them.
His ghost is said to haunt some of the rooms, banging a toy drum.
noun
A place that is the haunt of a particular person is one which they often visit because they enjoy going there.
The Channel Islands are a favourite summer haunt for UK and French tourists alike.
inflections hauntshauntinghauntedhangout
cefr-level C1

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