haunted

haunt  (hônt, hnt)

v. haunt·ed, haunt·ing, haunts

v.tr.

1. To inhabit, visit, or appear to in the form of a ghost or other supernatural being.

2. To visit often; frequent: haunted the movie theaters.

3. To come to the mind of continually; obsess: a riddle that haunted me all morning.

4. To be continually present in; pervade: the melancholy that haunts the composer's music.

v.intr.

To recur or visit often, especially as a ghost.

n.

1. A place much frequented.

2. also hant or ha'nt (hnt) or haint (hnt) Chiefly Southern U.S. A ghost or other supernatural being.

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[Middle English haunten, to frequent, from Old French hanter; see tkei- in Indo-European roots.]

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haunter n.

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haunted

Adjective

1. (of a place) frequented or visited by ghosts

2. (of a person) obsessed or worried

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	haunted - having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something; "became more and more haunted by the stupid riddle"; "was absolutely obsessed with the girl"; "got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children"; "he was taken up in worry for the old woman" obsessed, taken up, preoccupied concerned - feeling or showing worry or solicitude; "concerned parents of youthful offenders"; "was concerned about the future"; "we feel concerned about accomplishing the task at hand"; "greatly concerned not to disappoint a small child"
	2.	haunted - showing emotional affliction or disquiet; "her expression became progressively more haunted" troubled - characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need; "troubled areas"; "fell into a troubled sleep"; "a troubled expression"; "troubled teenagers"
	3.	haunted - inhabited by or as if by apparitions; "a haunted house" inhabited - having inhabitants; lived in; "the inhabited regions of the earth"

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haunted

adjective 1. possessed, ghostly, cursed, eerie, spooky (informal) jinxed

adjective 2. preoccupied, worried, troubled, plagued, obsessed, tormented

Translations

haunted [ˈhɔːntɪd] adj [castle etc] → embrujado; [look] → de angustia

haunted [ˈhɔːntɪd] haunt adj [castle etc] → hanté(e); [look] → égaré(e) → hagard(e)

haunted [ˈhɔːntɪd] haunt adj (expression) → gehetzt, gequält;

this building/room is haunted → in diesem Gebäude/Zimmer spukt es

haunted [ˈhɔːntɪd] adj [castle etc] → abitato/a dai fantasmi or dagli spiriti; [look] → ossessionato/a, tormentato/a