All haunt synonyms
haunt
H h noun haunt
- hangout β a place where a person frequently visits, especially for socializing or recreation.
- watering hole β a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
- abode β Your abode is the place where you live.
- dwelling β Machinery. a flat or cylindrical area on a cam for maintaining a follower in a certain position during part of a cycle. a period in a cycle in the operation of a machine or engine during which a given part remains motionless.
- niche β an ornamental recess in a wall or the like, usually semicircular in plan and arched, as for a statue or other decorative object.
- lair β A wild animal's resting place, especially one that is well hidden.
- cubbyhole β A cubbyhole is a very small room or space for storing things.
- habitat β the natural environment of an organism; place that is natural for the life and growth of an organism: a tropical habitat.
- locality β a place, spot, or district, with or without reference to things or persons in it or to occurrences there: They moved to another locality.
- site β the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment: the site of our summer cabin.
- headquarters β a center of operations, as of the police or a business, from which orders are issued; the chief administrative office of an organization: The operatives were always in touch with headquarters.
- resort β to have recourse for use, help, or accomplishing something, often as a final available option or resource: to resort to war.
- range β the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
- place β a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- purlieu β purlieus, environs or neighborhood.
- den β A den is the home of certain types of wild animals such as lions or foxes.
- rendezvous β an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- home β Lord, Douglas-Home.
- retreat β the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
- bar β A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
- clubhouse β A clubhouse is a place where the members of a club, especially a sports club, meet.
verb haunt
- bedevil β If you are bedevilled by something unpleasant, it causes you a lot of problems over a period of time.
- annoy β If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
- terrorize β to fill or overcome with terror.
- permeate β to pass into or through every part of: Bright sunshine permeated the room.
- frighten β to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
- besiege β If you are besieged by people, many people want something from you and continually bother you.
- appall β If something appalls you, it disgusts you because it seems so bad or unpleasant.
- pervade β to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- beset β If someone or something is beset by problems or fears, they have many problems or fears which affect them severely.
- torment β to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
- worry β to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
- plague β French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
- trouble β to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- hound β Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
- inhabit β to live or dwell in (a place), as people or animals: Small animals inhabited the woods.
- terrify β to fill with terror or alarm; make greatly afraid.
- obsess β to dominate or preoccupy the thoughts, feelings, or desires of (a person); beset, trouble, or haunt persistently or abnormally: Suspicion obsessed him.
- weigh on β to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
- affect β If something affects a person or thing, it influences them or causes them to change in some way.
- agonize β If you agonize over something, you feel very anxious about it and spend a long time thinking about it.
- float β to rest or remain on the surface of a liquid; be buoyant: The hollow ball floated.
- agitate β If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
- walk β to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- infest β to live in or overrun to an unwanted degree or in a troublesome manner, especially as predatory animals or vermin do: Sharks infested the coastline.
- molest β to bother, interfere with, or annoy.
- intrude β to thrust or bring in without invitation, permission, or welcome.
- appear β If you say that something appears to be the way you describe it, you are reporting what you believe or what you have been told, though you cannot be sure it is true.
- recur β to occur again, as an event, experience, etc.
- pester β to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.