Haunted
['hɔːntɪd] or ['hɔntɪd]
Definition
(adj.) 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' .
(adj.) inhabited by or as if by apparitions; 'a haunted house' .
(adj.) showing emotional affliction or disquiet; 'her expression became progressively more haunted' .
Typist: Sadie--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Haunt
(a.) Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost.
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Examples
- I was haunted by the file too. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I am haunted by the fear that our coming to Milton has killed her. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The figure of my sister in her chair by the kitchen fire, haunted me night and day. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- At another time we were haunted for several days by an apparition, to which our people gave the appellation of the Black Spectre. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I was so haunted at last by the idea, though I knew there was nothing in it, that I stole into the next room to look at him. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- O the many, many nights and days through which the unquiet spirit within me haunted that house when Estella lived there! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Their minds were haunted by the idea of sin and the need for bloody propitiations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A bustard haunted the spot, and not many years before this five and twenty might have been seen in Egdon at one time. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It haunted me when I got home. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Mr. Moore haunted his mill, his mill-yard, his dye-house, and his warehouse till the sickly dawn strengthened into day. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I haunted them, as my memory had often done, and lingered among them as my younger thoughts had lingered when I was far away. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Presently I was in my bed--my miserable bed--haunted with quick scorpions. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She looked back at us from the door, and I had a last impression of that beautiful haunted face, the startled eyes, and the drawn mouth. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The youth's face had haunted me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I was usually at Hammersmith about half the week, and when I was at Hammersmith I haunted Richmond, whereof separately by and by. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- After I went away, I was haunted by two pale faces: Mrs. Casaubon looked as much in need of care as you, Rosy. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- What, though life and the system of social intercourse were a wilderness, a tiger-haunted jungle! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I was wrong ever to bring you to Thornfield Hall, knowing as I did how it was haunted. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I haunted the Vatican, and stood surrounded by marble forms of divine beauty. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The beck wandered down to the Hollow, through a silent district; no wind followed its course or haunted its woody borders. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Some suspicion of clandestine meetings haunted his mind. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Do you never hear any haunted noises here? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She repeated in the same tone, sunk to a whisper, I have been free, I have been happy, yet his Ghost has never haunted me! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- And what and who was she that had haunted me? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I felt as if I had committed some great crime, the consciousness of which haunted me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Snatches of sweet ballads haunted her ear; now and then she sang a stanza. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I had the conscience of an assassin, and was haunted by a vague sense of enormous wickedness. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- After we got home, he haunted a post opposite our house. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He had as a boy been haunted by the fear of monsters and witches in which the credulous of all classes then believed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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