Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
- (amerikanenglanti) haint
- (amerikanenglanti) harnt
- (Skotlannin englanti) hant
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Määritelmät
Verbit
- (transitive) To inhabit, or visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
- (transitive) To make uneasy, restless.
- (transitive) To stalk, to follow
- (intransitive, now rare) To live habitually; to stay, to remain.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.
- (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To practise; to devote oneself to.
- (intransitive) To persist in staying or visiting.
Substantiivit
- A place at which one is regularly found; a hangout.
- (dialect) A ghost.
- A feeding place for animals.
Esimerkit
- A couple of ghosts haunt the old, burnt-down house.
- You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house.
- those cares that haunt the court and town
- Foul spirits haunt my resting place.
- The memory of his past failures haunted him.
- The policeman haunted him, following him everywhere.
- Jesus therfore walked no more openly amonge the iewes: butt went his waye thence vnto a countre ny to a wildernes into a cite called effraym, and there haunted with his disciples.
- yonder in that wastefull wildernesse / Huge monsters haunt, and many dangers dwell [...]
- Haunt thyself to pity.
- Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.
- I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors.
- It is a great rock or cliff on the loneliest part of the mountains, and, … is known by the name of the Garden Rock. Near the foot of it is a small lake, the haunt of the solitary bittern, with water-snakes basking in the sun on the leaves of the pond-lilies which lie on the surface.
- Both Jack and Fletcher had graduated the year before, but still took an interest in their old haunts, and patronized the fellows who were not yet through.
- Wyoming has been a favorite haunt of paleontologists for the past century ever since westering pioneers reported that many vertebrate fossils were almost lying on the ground.
- ‘Harnts don't wander much ginerally,’ he said. ‘They hand round thar own buryin'-groun' mainly.’
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