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[Verb] | "haunt" | \ ˈhȯnt \

1: to visit often : frequent

2: to continually seek the company of

3: to have a disquieting or harmful effect on : trouble

Origin: 14th century ;

Middle English haunten, hanten "to frequent, frequent the company of, dwell in, engage in, practice (a vice or virtue), perform," borrowed from Anglo-French hanter, haunter (also continental Old French), of uncertain origin;

* Note : The origin of the French word has been much argued over in the past century and a half. Given the initial h aspiré (meaning the initial was pronounced into early modern French and still blocks elision of preceding vowels), the word has usually been given a Germanic source. Perhaps most frequently it has been traced to the Old Norse verb reflected in Old Icelandic heimta "to draw, pull, call on, claim, crave, get back, recover," despite semantic and phonetic objections. Also proffered has been a presumed Old Low Franconian *haimiþōn "to shelter, accommodate." Both etyma are derivatives of Germanic *haima- "dwelling" (see: {home:1|home:1}). The possibility of a spoken Latin source has been revived in Dictionnaire étymologique de l'ancien français (on line), which suggests *ambitāre, from Latin ambitus "circuit" (see: {ambit|ambit})—see: full discussion and bibliography there.;

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[Noun] | "haunt" | \ ˈhȯnt \

1: a place habitually frequented

2: ghost

Origin: 14th century ;

Middle English haunt, hant "frequent visiting, resort, a place frequented, habitual practice of something, usage," borrowed from Anglo-French hant, haunt, derivative of hanter "to frequent, {see: |haunt:1|haunt:1}";

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[Idiom] | "come back to haunt"

1: to cause problems for (someone) in the future

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[Verb] | "haunt"

1: to go to or spend time in often;

* e.g., " ... much of her time is spent haunting antique shops in search of unique knobs for the curio cabinets she builds "

Antonyms :
avoid,
shun

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[Noun] | "haunt"

1: a place for spending time or for socializing;

* e.g., " ... one of their favorite after-school haunts is Joe's Pizza "

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2: the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people;

* e.g., " ... we heard the local tales of a haunt in the choir loft and of a specter in the graveyard "

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