Hypertext Webster Gateway: "haunted"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Haunt \Haunt\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Haunted}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Haunting}.] [F. hanter; of uncertain origin, perh.
from an assumed LL. ambitare to go about, fr. L. ambire (see
{Ambition}); or cf. Icel. heimta to demand, regain, akin to
heim home (see {Home}). [root]36.]
1. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit
pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.
You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house.
--Shak.
Those cares that haunt the court and town. --Swift.
2. To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost
or apparition.
Foul spirits haunt my resting place. --Fairfax.
3. To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obs.]
That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . .
. is cursed. --Chaucer.
Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.
--Ascham.
4. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.]
Haunt thyself to pity. --Wyclif.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Haunted \Haunt"ed\, a.
Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions;
frequented by a ghost.
All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted
houses. --Longfellow.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
haunted
adj 1: having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with
something; "became more and more haunted by the stupid
riddle"; "was absolutely obsessed with the girl"; "got
no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the
children"; "he was taken up in worry for the old
woman" [syn: {obsessed}, {preoccupied}, {taken up(p)}]
2: showing emotional affliction or disquiet; "her expression
became progressively more haunted"
3: inhabited by or as if by apparitions; "a haunted house"
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