[haunt] vb [ME, fr. OF hanter, prob. fr. ON heimta to lead home, pull, claim, fr. heimr home] vt (14c) 1 a: to visit often: frequent b: to continually seek the company of
2. a: to have a disquieting or harmful effect on: trouble "problems we ignore now will come back to ~ us" b: to recur constantly and spontaneously to "the tune ~ed her" c: to reappear continually in "a sense of tension that ~s his writing"
3: to visit or inhabit as a ghost ~ vi 1: to stay around or persist: linger
2: to appear habitually as a ghost -- haunt.er n -- haunt.ing.ly adv
[2]haunt n (14c) 1: a place habitually frequented
2. chiefly dial: ghost