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HAUNTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something
Example:
he was taken up in worry for the old woman
Synonyms:
haunted; obsessed; preoccupied; taken up
Classified under:
Similar:
concerned (feeling or showing worry or solicitude)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Inhabited by or as if by apparitions
Example:
a haunted house
Classified under:
Similar:
inhabited (having inhabitants; lived in)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Showing emotional affliction or disquiet
Example:
her expression became progressively more haunted
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb haunt
Context examples:
Then the youth went next morning to the king, and said: “If it be allowed, I will willingly watch three nights in the haunted castle.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Despises the meaner forms of life altogether, though he dreads being haunted by their souls.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I remember that during the whole long day I was haunted by the feeling that we were closely observed, though by whom or whence I could give no guess.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He dogged his master's heels whenever he left the cabin, and haunted the front stoop when he remained inside.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Water-swept and aslant, it was preferable to the noisome, rat-haunted dungeons which served as cabins.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To raise your spirits, moreover, she gives you reason to suppose that the part of the abbey you inhabit is undoubtedly haunted, and informs you that you will not have a single domestic within call.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The figure in these two phases haunted the lawyer all night; and if at any time he dozed over, it was but to see it glide more stealthily through sleeping houses, or move the more swiftly and still the more swiftly, even to dizziness, through wider labyrinths of lamplighted city, and at every street corner crush a child and leave her screaming.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
There are times when I am light-headed from want of sleep, times when death, with its rest and sleep, is a positive lure to me, times when I am haunted by Longfellow's lines: Of course, this is sheer nonsense.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Now Emma could, indeed, enjoy Mr. Knightley's visits; now she could talk, and she could listen with true happiness, unchecked by that sense of injustice, of guilt, of something most painful, which had haunted her when remembering how disappointed a heart was near her, how much might at that moment, and at a little distance, be enduring by the feelings which she had led astray herself.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Sir Thomas's sending away his son seemed to her so like a parent's care, under the influence of a foreboding of evil to himself, that she could not help feeling dreadful presentiments; and as the long evenings of autumn came on, was so terribly haunted by these ideas, in the sad solitariness of her cottage, as to be obliged to take daily refuge in the dining-room of the Park.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
