# haunted

Pronunciation: say "HAWN-tid" /ˈhɔːntɪd/

## Adjective

1. Of a place, regularly visited by one or more ghosts.
   - Simple: Believed to be a place that ghosts visit or live in.
   - _Tourists pay good money to spend a night in the most haunted castle in the country._
   - _Locals avoid the abandoned mill, convinced it is haunted after dark._
2. Showing a feeling of being deeply disturbed or troubled.
   - Simple: Showing signs of worry, fear, or deep distress.
   - _The survivor spoke in a quiet, haunted voice about the night of the fire._
   - _Years of war had left the veteran with a haunted expression._
3. Continually preoccupied or tormented by an idea, threat, or similar concern.
   - Simple: Constantly troubled or worried by a thought, fear, or threat.
   - _She remained haunted by the fear that she had forgotten something important._
   - _The detective was haunted by the one case he never managed to solve._

## Verb

4. Simple past and past participle of haunt. — simple past and past participle of haunt
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of haunt. Use this form for something that happened before now.
   - _Strange noises haunted the abandoned mill every winter._
   - _The decision haunted him long after he had made it._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/haunted (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).