Synonyms of the word haunt


HAUNTAREA - COUNTRY - FOLLOW - FREQUENT - GHOST - HANGOUT - OBSESS - PREOCCUPY - PURSUE - REPAIR - RESORT - STALK - VISIT

haunt

  • v. (transitive) To inhabit, or visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
  • v. (transitive) To make uneasy, restless.
  • v. (transitive) To stalk, to follow.
  • v. (intransitive, now rare) To live habitually; to stay, to remain.
  • v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.
  • v. (transitive, Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To practise; to devote oneself to.
  • v. (intransitive) To persist in staying or visiting.
  • n. A place at which one is regularly found; a hangout.
  • n. (dialect) A ghost.
  • n. A feeding place for animals.

area

  • n. (mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
  • n. A particular geographic region.
  • n. Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
  • n. The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
  • n. (Britain) An open space, below ground level, between the front of a house and the pavement.
  • n. (soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.
  • n. (slang) Genitals.

country

  • n. (archaic) An area of land; a district, region.
  • n. A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members…
  • n. The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political…
  • n. (usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
  • n. Country music.
  • n. (mining) The rock through which a vein runs.
  • adj. From or in the countryside or connected with it.
  • adj. Of or connected to country music.

follow

  • v. (transitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.
  • v. (transitive) To go or come after in a sequence.
  • v. (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To understand, to pay attention to.
  • v. (transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
  • v. (transitive) To be a logical consequence of.
  • v. (transitive) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
  • n. (sometimes attributive) In billiards and similar games, a stroke causing a ball to follow another ball…
  • n. (Internet) The act of following another user's online activity.

frequent

  • adj. Done or occurring often; common.
  • adj. Occurring at short intervals.
  • adj. Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.
  • adj. (obsolete) Full; crowded; thronged.
  • adj. (obsolete) Often or commonly reported.
  • v. (transitive) To visit often.

ghost

  • n. (dated) The spirit; the soul of man.
  • n. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition;…
  • n. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering.
  • n. A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of…
  • n. An unwanted image similar to and overlapping or adjacent to the main one on a television screen, caused…
  • n. A ghostwriter.
  • n. (Internet) An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying…
  • n. (computing) An image of a file or hard disk.
  • n. (theater) An understudy.
  • n. (espionage) A covert (and deniable) agent.
  • n. The faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.
  • n. (video games) An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players…
  • n. A dead person whose identity is stolen by another. See ghosting.
  • n. (attributive, in names of species) White or pale.
  • n. (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
  • n. (attributive) Abandoned.
  • n. (attributive) The remains of.
  • n. (attributive) Perceived or listed but not real.
  • n. (attributive) Of cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.
  • n. (attributive) Substitute.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition.
  • v. (obsolete) To die; to expire.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To ghostwrite.
  • v. (nautical) To sail seemingly without wind.
  • v. (computing) To copy a file or hard drive image.
  • v. (graphical user interface) To gray out (a visual item) to indicate that it is unavailable.
  • v. (Internet, transitive) To forcibly disconnect an IRC user who is using one's reserved nickname.
  • v. To appear without warning; To move quickly and quietly; to slip.
  • v. to kill.
  • v. to break up with someone without warning or explanation (see ghosting).

hangout

  • n. A place for hanging out; an informal meeting-place.

obsess

  • v. (passive, constructed with "with") To be preoccupied with a single topic or emotion.
  • v. (transitive) To dominate the thoughts of someone.
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, construed with over) To think or talk obsessively about.

preoccupy

  • v. To distract; to occupy or draw attention elsewhere.

pursue

  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To follow with harmful intent; to try to harm, to persecute, torment.
  • v. (transitive) To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase.
  • v. (transitive) To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To participate in (an activity, business etc.); to practise, follow (a profession).

repair

  • n. The act of repairing something.
  • n. The result of repairing something.
  • n. The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
  • v. To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
  • v. To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
  • n. The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
  • n. A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
  • v. To transfer oneself to another place.
  • v. to pair again.

resort

  • n. A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities such as lodgings, entertainment,…
  • n. Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).
  • n. (obsolete) A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.
  • v. To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.
  • v. To fall back; to revert.
  • v. To make one's way, go (to).
  • v. to repeat a sorting process; sort again.
  • n. An act of sorting again.
  • n. (obsolete) Active power or movement; spring.

stalk

  • n. The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.
  • n. The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.
  • n. Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.
  • n. (architecture) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes…
  • n. One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.
  • n. (zoology).
  • n. (metalworking) An iron bar with projections inserted in a core to strengthen it; a core arbor.
  • v. (transitive) To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer.
  • v. (transitive) To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.Wp.
  • v. (intransitive) To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner.
  • v. (intransitive) To walk behind something, such as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed…
  • n. A particular episode of trying to follow or contact someone.
  • n. A hunt (of a wild animal).
  • v. (intransitive) To walk haughtily.

visit

  • v. (transitive) Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally…
  • v. (transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
  • v. (transitive, now rare) To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).
  • v. (transitive) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
  • v. (transitive) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.
  • v. (transitive) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below…
  • v. (transitive) To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.
  • n. A single act of visiting.
  • n. (medicine, insurance) A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.

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