I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a haunting melody (= used about a beautiful melody, especially one that is rather sad and which you remember for a long time )
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He began to play a soulful, haunting melody.
be haunted by the memory of sth (= be unable to forget something unhappy )
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He is haunted by memories of his unhappy childhood.
ghost...haunts (= often appears in )
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They say the young girl’s ghost still haunts the house.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
death
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Images of death and violence haunt the story.
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The mystery surrounding his death still haunts his family.
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Could he have been a signalman who met an unfortunate death and still haunts the place of his end?
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Turbulence and violent death haunted his adolescence just as repression and hard tack had besieged his childhood.
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Since we had been back in Reine, Jean-Claude had stopped speaking of Montaine's death as if it haunted him unduly.
dream
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It had haunted his dreams for eight years.
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It haunted his dreams , controlled his waking hours, held him captive.
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It is a haunting , dream-like painting, in which we are given a kind of omnipotence.
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I know they will come back to haunt me in my dreams .
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Goose had haunted his dreams for ten days.
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A construction worker in the year 2084 is haunted by recurring dreams of a previous existence on Mars.
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In the north the Witch King stirs once more and the Sword of Khaine haunts the dreams of warriors.
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Magic: it lubricates the gap between what we can see and understand, and what unhappy feelings haunt our dreams .
fear
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Mr Milosevic is fighting for his political survival after a vicious campaign tainted by intimidation and haunted by fears of electoral fraud.
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His father, haunted by the financial fears of a Depression childhood, worked two jobs.
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They were haunted by the fear of another Dunkirk and were anxious to remain strong in the Middle East.
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I used to be haunted by fear of thieves, ghosts, and serpents.
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Behind the facade of hope and optimism, there remained the haunting fear of poverty, inequality and insecurity.
ghost
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The ghosts of retired colonels haunt some of Torquay's menus.
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Famous ghosts haunted even the wastebaskets.
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Mermaids have been sighted there and a ghost haunts a derelict bothy near the loch.
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She moved through the rooms of her life as if she were a ghost haunting the sites of her previous life.
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In this passage, as in the Kipling story, food runs out and three ghosts haunt the seamen.
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They say people who die sudden, violent deaths are most likely to become ghosts and haunt the earth.
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Kirkgrim A GHOST thought to haunt churches, where its appearance was an ill omen.
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Most notable is the GHOST named Hob who haunted several of the rivers in Yorkshire.
house
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She haunts this house , you know.
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Alone with her daughter in a haunted house she managed every damn thing.
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Ancient spirits haunt an old Georgetown house and terrify the current inhabitants in this chilling tale of murder and passion.
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The game drops you off in the lobby of the haunted house , which contains some great works of art.
memory
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Though it is 11 years ago the memory of it still haunts me.
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Balkan Notes 6: Long after the war, the memories of the conflict haunt Bosnia's population.
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A memory came back to haunt him: the cold-blooded murder of a soldier on a bleak snow-covered hillside.
■ VERB
come
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Memories of blood-red wine and cruelly glinting shards of glass came back to haunt her.
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And it will come back to haunt you.
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I know they will come back to haunt me in my dreams.
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The ghost of the tennis ball is coming to haunt the man.
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Male speaker Have the faces of the dead ever come back to haunt you?
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Those losses are coming back to haunt us now.
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The recollection of those whispered words came rushing back to haunt her.
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The remembered odor of perfume and powder of woman came back, haunting her, filling her.
return
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It isn't about the dead hand of the past, the unsettled guilt-edged accounts of history returning to haunt the present.
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Fred returns to haunt the nightmares of teenagers and to kill them while they sleep and dream.
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His answers would return to haunt him.
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If the politicians flunk change this time, the issue of electoral reform will return to haunt them.
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Was he a spectre returning to haunt Fleury?
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But the phantoms of boards and unplayed moves gradually return to haunt Luzhin, threatening his sanity.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
haunted expression/look
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A sleepless night had added to her pallor and the haunted look in her eyes.
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It still had the gaunt, haunted look that had so put Meg off before.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All your mistakes will come back to haunt you.
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Legends say the building is haunted by ghosts.
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Memories of the war still haunt her.
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People say the house is haunted by a former slave.
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The ghost of the murdered prince still haunts the castle.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All said the events still haunt them.
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Memories of blood-red wine and cruelly glinting shards of glass came back to haunt her.
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The ghosts of retired colonels haunt some of Torquay's menus.
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The images of these hopeless, hungry people haunted her, filling her with outrage.
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The leaders remain haunted by the forces of dissent they ordered the army to crush.
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Yet she, like all Republican members of the House, remains haunted by his presence.
II. noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
favourite
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On this route you will be able to visit the Wasdale Head Inn, a once favourite haunt of rock climbers.
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They had already out guessed me, by staking out my favourite haunt .
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My list of favourite haunts is purely personal and certainly not all-embracing.
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Whilst living at Bedford Gardens he began taking Bobby Hunt around his favourite haunts .
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It's a favourite haunt for many backbenchers.
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A favourite haunt of telly aristocracy is Ilha de Caras-the Island of Faces-a private isle for celebrities.
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The Drummond Hotel A favourite haunt of the literati.
old
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Wise men thought that he should not be too near old haunts and old friends.
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I became more and more of a recluse, avoiding our old haunts for fear of running into him.
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And there are signs that on one river the otter is already moving back into its old haunts .
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His own rehearsals resumed soon after the first Y concert, at most of the old haunts .
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Mr Boesky's return to his old haunts comes with four months of his sentence still to run.
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Last summer, with much excitement, we revisited our old haunt .
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The other day I went back into the city to walk round some of my old haunts .
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She would have been tempted to visit all of Montaine's old haunts .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a local writers' haunt
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Cafes like "Les Deux Magots" were once the favourite haunts of French artists and intellectuals.
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Johnson will be revisting all his old haunts in Washington.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And there are signs that on one river the otter is already moving back into its old haunts.
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It is a coastline that can be enjoyed throughout the year and is by no means an exclusively summertime haunt .
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It was, and is, the haunt of fashionable intellectuals.
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Last summer, with much excitement, we revisited our old haunt .
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Naturally a haunt of rugger enthusiasts.
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On this route you will be able to visit the Wasdale Head Inn, a once favourite haunt of rock climbers.
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Running parallel to Princes Street, this narrow thoroughfare is a convivial haunt full of pubs of character, boutiques and restaurants.
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The other day I went back into the city to walk round some of my old haunts.