/hɔːnt/
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Translation
If a ghost haunts a place, it appears there again and again. A bad memory can also haunt a person.
Word origin
From Old French hanter, meaning to visit a place often; the ghost meaning grew from that idea of returning again and again.
- Origin
- Old French
- Root
- hanter
Grammar
Verb typeregular (haunt, haunts, haunted)
Examples
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A ghost that haunts a place keeps coming back to it.
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"Haunted" describes a place where ghosts are said to live.
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Here it means the bad memory keeps coming back, like a ghost.
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