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Meanings of haunt in English

Portuguese
lugar predileto
Catalan
cau

A frequently visited place.

        lugar predileto
        Portuguese
        obsedar
        Catalan
        obsessionar
        Spanish
        espantar

        Haunt like a ghost; pursue.

              obsedar
              Portuguese
              aparacer como se fosse fantasma
              Catalan
              sotjar
              Spanish
              acechar

              Follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to.

                    aparacer como se fosse fantasma
                    Portuguese
                    frequentar
                    Catalan
                    sovintejar
                    Spanish
                    frecuentar

                    Be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place.

                          frequentar
                          Usage of haunt in English
                          1
                          Now, thirty years later, these innocent childhood hours returned to haunt him.
                          The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
                          2
                          A few hours later these words would come back to haunt me.
                          Somewhere inside
                          3
                          This particular seat was a favourite haunt of hers in the summer.
                          The Swindler and Other Stories
                          4
                          So this league can quickly come back to haunt you, said Clarke.
                          The Irish Times
                          5
                          The question that will haunt the rest of her days, and mine.
                          The Secret History of Twin Peaks
                          6
                          Franco left an oppressive legacy which periodically returns to haunt Spanish politics.
                          The Irish Times
                          7
                          The dead man will haunt me all the way in the darkness.
                          The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories
                          8
                          Well, if it's not, it has certainly come back to haunt us.
                          The Guardian
                          9
                          The house is full of ghosts; they haunt and follow me everywhere.
                          The Crimson Blind
                          10
                          It even came back to haunt him in a family group chat.
                          News.com.au
                          11
                          And for some, violence continued to haunt them even after their arrival.
                          The Guardian
                          12
                          Squirrels haunt the trees, and otters are occasionally found in the river.
                          John Keble's Parishes: A History of Hursley and Otterbourne
                          13
                          The Barataria region, she'd said, had once been the haunt of pirates.
                          Iron lace
                          14
                          COLLEGE 2002: Indecision continues to haunt this year's applicants and their parents.
                          The Irish Times
                          15
                          These images haunt my days, my nights, my dreams and my realities.
                          The Irish Times
                          16
                          These also were the pigeons that haunt the thoroughfares of the east.
                          The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army
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                          Translations for haunt
                          Haunt through the time
                          Haunt across language varieties
                          South Africa
                          Common
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                          Common
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