# haunting

Pronunciation: say "HAWNT-ing" US /ˈhɔntɪŋ/, UK /ˈhɔːntɪŋ/

## Adjective

1. Remaining in the mind and difficult to put out of one's thoughts.
   - Simple: Staying in your mind for a long time and hard to forget.
   - _The documentary's final scene was so haunting that the audience sat in silence._
   - _Critics praised the novel's haunting portrait of postwar grief._

## Noun

2. A single instance of a ghost's presence in a place, or a spirit's continued occupation of where it appears.
   - Simple: A time when a ghost stays in or keeps visiting a place.
   - _Investigators documented the haunting over several cold, restless nights._
   - _Local legend describes a haunting that has troubled the inn for centuries._

## Verb

3. Present participle of haunt. — present participle and gerund of haunt
   - Simple: Present participle of haunt. Use this form for something happening now, often after 'is' or 'are'.
   - _Rumors of a curse are haunting the village this winter._
   - _She spent years haunting the libraries in search of the lost manuscript._

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