Another word for haunt
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Verb
To visit regularly
- (intransitive, idiomatic, slang) To spend time doing nothing in particular.
- To turn to or make use of a person, strategy, or course of action for help or as a means of achieving something:
- To go, especially customarily or frequently; repair:
- A place frequented by people for relaxation or recreation:
- To restore to sound condition after damage or injury; fix:
- To set right; remedy:
- To restore or renew:
- Occurring or appearing quite often or at close intervals:
- Habitual or regular:
- To pay frequent visits to; be in or at often:
See also:To come to mind continually
- A state of distress, affliction, difficulty, or need:
- A distressing or difficult circumstance or situation:
- A cause or source of distress, disturbance, or difficulty:
- Great physical pain or mental anguish.
- A source of harassment, annoyance, or pain.
- The torture inflicted on prisoners under interrogation.
- To preoccupy the mind of (someone) excessively.
- To have the mind excessively preoccupied with a single emotion or topic:
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Noun
A frequently visited place
The natural environment of an animal or plant
See also:A supernatural being, such as a ghost
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Another word for haunt
Noun
A retreat
- A meeting at a prearranged time and place.
- A prearranged meeting place, especially an assembly point for troops or ships.
- A popular gathering place:
- A place where people arrange to meet.
- The den or dwelling of a wild animal.
- A den or hideaway.
- A resting place; a couch.
- The offices of a commander, as of a military unit, from which orders are issued.
- A center of operations or administration:
- To turn to or make use of a person, strategy, or course of action for help or as a means of achieving something:
- To go, especially customarily or frequently; repair:
- A place frequented by people for relaxation or recreation:
- The shelter or retreat of a wild animal; a lair.
- A cave or hollow used as a refuge or hiding place.
- A hidden or squalid dwelling place:
A spirit
- Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or apparition.
- An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion:
- A model of a human body or body part.
- A ghost; a specter.
- A secret agent; a spy.
- Used as a disparaging term for a black person.
- A ghost that manifests itself by noises, rappings, and the creation of disorder.
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Verb
To frequent persistently
- To accustom by frequent repetition or prolonged exposure.
- To cause physiological or psychological habituation, as to a drug.
- To experience habituation.
See also:To frequent as a spirit
- (US) (especially southern American) Variant of haunt;
- A ghost; a specter.
- A secret agent; a spy.
- Used as a disparaging term for a black person.
- To cause to become real or actual:
- To cause to become materialistic:
- To come into existence; become real:
- To live or reside in:
- To be present in; fill:
- To dwell.
- To move over a surface by taking steps with the feet at a pace slower than a run:
- To go or travel on foot:
- To go on foot for pleasure or exercise; stroll:
- To remain suspended within or on the surface of a fluid without sinking.
- To be suspended in or move through space as if supported by a liquid.
- To move from place to place, especially at random.
- To assume a standing position after lying, sitting, or kneeling.
- To get out of bed:
- To move from a lower to a higher position; ascend:
- To be present throughout; permeate:
- To pass through the openings or interstices of:
- To spread or flow throughout; pervade:
- To spread through or penetrate something.
To prey upon
- To take away characteristics traditionally associated with masculinity, such as courage or strength:
- To take away virility from; emasculate:
- To suffer mental anguish or worry about something:
- To suffer extreme pain:
- To cause great pain or anguish to.
- Any of various plants of the genus Urtica, having toothed leaves, unisexual apetalous flowers, and stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact.
- Any of various hairy, stinging, or prickly plants.
- To sting with or as if with a nettle.
- To pierce or wound painfully with a sharp-pointed structure or organ, as that of certain insects.
- To cause to feel a sharp, smarting pain:
- To cause to suffer keenly in the mind or feelings:
- To seize the positions of and defeat conclusively:
- To spread or swarm over destructively:
- To spread swiftly throughout:
- A framework or stand in or on which to hold, hang, or display various articles:
- A triangular frame for arranging billiard or pool balls at the start of a game.
- A receptacle for livestock feed.
- To cause to move with violence or sudden force.
- To upset; disturb:
- To arouse interest in (a cause, for example) by use of the written or spoken word; discuss or debate.
- To fill with horror and amazement; dismay greatly:
- A farm implement consisting of a heavy frame with sharp teeth or upright disks, used to break up and even off plowed ground.
- To break up and level (soil or land) with a harrow.
- To inflict great distress or torment on.
- To disturb, interfere with, or annoy:
- To subject (a child) to sexual contact.
- To subject (an adult) to unwanted sexual contact.
- To cause irritation to (another); make somewhat angry.
- To harass or disturb by repeated attacks.
- To fill with fear; alarm.
- To drive or force by arousing fear:
- To become afraid:
- To deprive of peace or rest; trouble.
- Absence of peace or rest; anxiety.
- Uneasy; restless.
- To fill or overpower with terror; terrify.
- To coerce or intimidate by causing fear.
- To make fun of (someone) playfully or taunt annoyingly:
- To say in a playful or mocking way:
- To provoke or irritate, as with physical movements:
- To feel uneasy or concerned about something; be troubled.
- To seize something with the teeth and bite or tear repeatedly:
- To touch or handle something nervously or persistently:
- To surround with hostile forces:
- To crowd around; hem in:
- To harass or overwhelm, as with requests:
- To annoy persistently, as with repeated demands or questions.
- To inhabit or overrun in numbers or quantities large enough to be harmful, threatening, or obnoxious:
- To live as a parasite in or on:
- To subject (another) to hostile or prejudicial remarks or actions; pressure or intimidate.
- To irritate or torment persistently:
- To make repeated attacks or raids on (an enemy, for example).
- To irritate, bother, or frustrate:
- To cause perplexity in; baffle:
- To cause difficulty or trouble to:
- A highly infectious, usually fatal, epidemic disease; a pestilence.
- A virulent, infectious disease that is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis (syn. Pasteurella pestis ) and is transmitted primarily by the bite of fleas from an infected rodent, especially a rat. In humans it occurs in bubonic form, marked by lymph node enlargement, and in pneumonic form, marked by infection of the lungs, and can progress to septicemia.
- A widespread affliction or calamity seen as divine retribution.
- To torment mercilessly; plague.
- To worry, annoy, or frustrate.
- To possess with or as if with a devil; bewitch.
- To fill with terror; make deeply afraid:
- To drive or force by arousing fear:
- A domestic dog of any of various breeds commonly used for hunting, characteristically having drooping ears, a short coat, and a deep resonant voice.
- A dog.
- A contemptible person; a scoundrel.
- To make angry; irritate.
- To cause (someone) to go mad; drive to madness.
- To become infuriated.
- To cause to become mentally deranged or obsessed.
- To produce a network of fine cracks in the surface or glaze of.
- To become mentally deranged or obsessed.
- A state of distress, affliction, difficulty, or need:
- A distressing or difficult circumstance or situation:
- A cause or source of distress, disturbance, or difficulty:
- To have as property; own:
- To have under one's power or control:
- To have as a quality, characteristic, or other attribute:
- To attack from all sides.
- To trouble persistently; harass.
- To hem in; surround:
- Great physical pain or mental anguish.
- A source of harassment, annoyance, or pain.
- The torture inflicted on prisoners under interrogation.
- To preoccupy the mind of (someone) excessively.
- To have the mind excessively preoccupied with a single emotion or topic:
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