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# haunt

«haunt» in Mova's school dictionary: **In stories, a ghost haunts a place or person when it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (haunt, haunts, haunted, haunting); noun (a haunt, haunts)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In stories, a ghost haunts a place or person when it appears there again and again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/#m1)

2) If a memory or worry haunts you, you keep thinking about it and it upsets you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/#m2)

3) To haunt a place means to go there very often. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/#m3)

4) (noun) A haunt is a place someone visits often, like a favourite café. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and Halloween, haunted houses and castles are full of ghosts. In everyday life and stories, a bad mistake can «come back to haunt you». A «favourite haunt» is a place you love to go. Ghosts are not proven to be real; haunted-house tales are for fun and spooky stories. Phrases: «haunted house», «come back to haunt», «favourite haunt».

### examples

- They say a ghost haunts the old castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/#x1)
- We went to a haunted house at the fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/#x2)
- The sad song haunted me for days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/#x3)
- That silly mistake came back to haunt him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/#x4)
- The park is our favourite haunt after school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/#x5)
- Pirates once haunted these seas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/#x6)
- The memory of the storm still haunts her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: haunted (also an adjective: «a haunted house»). Pronounced «hawnt». Adjective: haunting (beautiful and sad, staying in your mind: «a haunting tune»). Science has found no evidence that ghosts exist; creaks and cold spots usually have ordinary causes.

### In the corpora

- [Then they chatter of «violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted walls» (tawny = golden brown).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/57-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows/24/)
- [Every school has legends like this: the haunted toilets, the secret tunnel, the head who sleeps in the office.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/24-school-legends/1/)
- [There is no evidence that ghosts exist or that "a ghost's breath" can haunt you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/26-sleepovers-and-spooky-stories/10/)
- [Ghost stories are made up; a dead pet does not come back to scratch or haunt anyone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/13/)
- [Once kids hear the toilets are haunted, a dripping tap and a creaky door "prove" it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/167-the-rumour-that-grows/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «haunt» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/haunt/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.