Haunt

  • 11HAUNT — was a straightforward but engagingly irreverent text based mainframe game. It was created in OPS4 language in 1979 by John Laird. [http://www.lysator.liu.se/adventure/Mainframe adventures.html] You explore a haunted house and encounter clues,… …

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  • 12haunt — index bailiwick, harass, obsess, plague, recur, remind Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 13haunt|ed — «HN tihd, HAHN », adjective. 1. visited by ghosts: »a haunted house, a haunted man. 2. Figurative. harried or harassed, as if by ghosts; troubled; worried: »Staring at the white Benita and at her haunted eyes (H. Rider Haggard) …

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  • 14haunt — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ favourite/favorite, old, popular (esp. BrE), regular, usual ▪ tourist (esp. BrE) ▪ The area was a popular tourist haunt …

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  • 15haunt — I UK [hɔːnt] / US [hɔnt] verb [transitive] Word forms haunt : present tense I/you/we/they haunt he/she/it haunts present participle haunting past tense haunted past participle haunted * 1) if a place is haunted by the spirit of a dead person,… …

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  • 16haunt — haunt1 [ hɔnt ] verb transitive * 1. ) to make someone feel worried and upset for a long time: Images from the war still haunt him. Caroline was haunted by a fear of cancer. 2. ) to continue to cause problems for a person or organization for a… …

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  • 17haunt — {{11}}haunt (n.) place frequently visited, c.1300, also in Middle English, habit, custom (early 14c.), from HAUNT (Cf. haunt) (v.). The meaning spirit that haunts a place, ghost is first recorded 1843, originally in stereotypical U.S. black… …

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  • 18haunt — haunt1 [ho:nt US ho:nt] v [T not in progressive] [Date: 1100 1200; : French; Origin: hanter] 1.) if the soul of a dead person haunts a place, it appears there often ▪ The pub is said to be haunted by the ghost of a former landlord. 2.) to make… …

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  • 19haunt — [[t]hɔ͟ːnt[/t]] haunts, haunting, haunted 1) VERB If something unpleasant haunts you, you keep thinking or worrying about it over a long period of time. [V n] The decision to leave her children now haunts her... [V n] He would always be haunted… …

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  • 20haunt — [[t]hɔnt, hɑnt[/t]] for 10also [[t]hænt[/t]] v.t. 1) to visit habitually or appear to frequently as a spirit or ghost: to haunt a house; to haunt a person[/ex] 2) to recur persistently to the consciousness of; remain with: Memories of love… …

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