HAUNT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of haunt in English

(Definition of haunt from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of haunt from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of haunt

haunt
Duncan writes near the end of her essay that voice ' seeps through porous bodies, remaining as haunting memories, haunting melodies'.
Vocal resonance seeps through porous bodies, remaining as haunting memories, haunting melodies.
The books are animated by haunting images and uncanny textual conjunctions, as if established scholarly styles are finally inadequate to the fullness of their purposes.
The blend of hazy street ambience and a distant boyband is, if not exactly haunting, somewhat arresting and a little weird.
Then the press was suddenly awash with stories about the dramatic sudden decline in sparrow numbers, from traditional urban haunts to suburbia and the countryside.
Simultaneously voicing and devoicing a or using a "haunted" voice while interacting with the infant b!
Eileen is still haunted by the fear that her father will be the next to disappear.
Such memories haunted most of the members of the first two categories.
When one comes to the grammar, one must remember that the present is haunted by the ghost of forty years of educational collapse.
We are haunted by a conscience of this right to grandeur of character, and are false to it.
Mystic poetry offered a substitute, escape from consciousness of the unpleasant realities, social as well as personal, that must have haunted them.
I sense that another and as yet not fully written essay haunts this volume.
When this music is not haunted and driven it is violently disrupted, at bars 66 and 94.
What is invisible does not cease to exist; it haunts.
He haunts humanism with his regenerated and denatured vocals.
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Translations of haunt

in Chinese (Traditional)
反覆煩擾, 使經常苦惱,不斷困擾, 幽靈…
in Chinese (Simplified)
反复烦扰, 使经常苦恼,不断困扰, 幽灵…
in Spanish
obsesionar, perseguir, aparecerse en…
in Portuguese
atormentar, assombrar…
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पिच्छा पुरवणे, पछाडणे…
(幽霊が)~に出る, (考え・思いが)~につきまとう, しょっちゅう頭に浮かぶ…
görünmek, ortaya çıkmak, ziyaret etmek…
hanter, obséder, fréquenter…
presentar-se a, rondar per, obsessionar…
rondspoken van een geest, rondwaren van een geest, (rond)spoken door iemands geest…
மீண்டும் மீண்டும் துன்பம் அல்லது பதட்டத்தை ஏற்படுத்தக்கூடிய, (ஒரு பேயின்) மீண்டும் மீண்டும் ஒரு இடத்தில் தோன்ற…
परेशान करना, डराना, (किसी भूत का) एक जगह पर बार-बार भटकना…
પરેશાન, બીક, (એક જગ્યાએ ભૂતનું વારંવાર) ભટકવું…
hjemsøge, forfølge, hjemsted…
spöka i (på, hos), hemsöka…
menunggu, menghantui, mengunjungi…
umgehen, heimsuchen, häufig besuchen…
hjemsøke, plage, spøke…
بار بار پریشان کن حالات کا سامنا ہونا, برے خیالات منڈلانا, کسی جگہ بھوت پریت کا بار بار آنا…
з'являтися, переслідувати, часто відвідувати…
являться, обитать (о привидении), преследовать…
పదేపదే బాధను లేక ఆందోళనను కలిగించు, తచ్చాడు, (దెయ్యం)ఒక చోట్లో మాటిమాటికీ కనిపించు…
يَسْكُن…
বারবার কষ্ট বা উদ্বেগ সৃষ্টি করা, অশরীরী কিছু উদয় হওয়া…
strašit, stále se vracet, často navštěvovat…
menghuni, menghantui, sering mendatangi…
สิงสู่, ทำให้กังวล, ที่ที่ไปบ่อย…
(về ma) thường đến thăm một nơi, ám ảnh, rất hay có mặt ở một nơi…
nawiedzać, prześladować, ulubione lub często odwiedzane miejsce…
귀신이 나타나다, 불쾌한 기억이 계속 떠오르다…
frequentare (spettro, fantasma, ecc.)…
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