haunt — OET · Shobdo

haunt

verb

1 a ghost haunts this eighteenth-century house:

appear in, materialize in;

visit;

informal spook.

2 he haunts street markets:

frequent, spend time in, patronize, visit regularly, be a regular visitor to, be a regular client of, loiter in, linger in;

informal hang around/round/out in, hang about in.

3 the sight haunted me for years:

torment, obsess, oppress, disturb, trouble, worry, plague, burden, beset, beleaguer, bedevil, besiege, torture;

prey on, weigh on, gnaw at, nag at, weigh heavily on, lie heavy on;

prey on one's mind, weigh heavily on one's mind, be a weight on one's mind;

informal bug.

noun

a favourite haunt of artists of the time:

hang-out, stamping ground, meeting place, territory, domain, purlieu, resort, den, retreat, favourite spot;

informal hidey-hole;

British, informal local, patch, manor.

haunt Oxford Dictionary of English