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To inhabit, visit, or appear to in the form of a ghost or other supernatural being.
(verb-transitive)
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To visit often; frequent: haunted the movie theaters.
(verb-transitive)
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To come to the mind of continually; obsess: a riddle that haunted me all morning.
(verb-transitive)
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To be continually present in; pervade: the melancholy that haunts the composer's music.
(verb-transitive)
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To recur or visit often, especially as a ghost.
(verb-intransitive)
American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.