HAUNTS Synonyms: 107 Similar and Opposite Words

haunts 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of haunt

as in frequents

to go to or spend time in often much of her time is spent haunting antique shops in search of unique knobs for the curio cabinets she builds

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haunts

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noun

plural of haunt

as in hangouts

a place for spending time or for socializing one of their favorite after-school haunts is Joe's Pizza

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as in spirits

chiefly dialect the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people we heard the local tales of a haunt in the choir loft and of a specter in the graveyard

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Recent Examples of haunts

Verb

The film’s second half goes in for horror-movie shock effects when the ghost of a white nemesis haunts the Charles family — bringing back the terrors of slavery — and the talisman piano becomes an instrument of exorcism. —

Armond White, National Review, 27 Dec. 2024 What happened next still haunts her. —

Anna Turning, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2024 The Christmas lights are on, party season is in full swing and the debilitating indecision that haunts shopping for family members is building. —

Paul Caputo, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024 Even now, Andrew’s interview haunts the prince and the royal family. —

Danica Kirka, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024 Mark asks Loren in a quiet late-night tête-à-tête that haunts the play. —

Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024 There is one memory of a reporting trip to Damascus that still haunts me. —

Ivan Watson, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024 Her death, in 2011, haunts the film and hovers over Carax’s depiction of their daughter, Nastya, seen in home movies as a small child and, as an adult, as an accomplished pianist. —

Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024 That’s highly speculative but that possibility haunts the case — and at least offers some rational explanation of so much irrational behavior. —

Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 10 Dec. 2024

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Noun

This smells like: An elicit, moonlit rendezvous in a fantastical orchard—where the dress code is leather and smudged lipstick.

— Jenny Berg, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2024
Mission controllers weren’t able to communicate with the probe during the maneuver, and will have to wait about three days to pick up a signal that the spacecraft survived its rendezvous with the sun.

— Denise Chow, NBC News, 24 Dec. 2024