haunt

«haunt» in Mova's judaism dictionary: In stories, a ghost haunts a place or person when it… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (haunt, haunts, haunted, haunting); noun (a haunt, haunts)

meaning for a pupil

1) In stories, a ghost haunts a place or person when it appears there again and again. tree →

2) If a memory or worry haunts you, you keep thinking about it and it upsets you. tree →

3) To haunt a place means to go there very often. tree →

4) (noun) A haunt is a place someone visits often, like a favourite café. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means a place where a person often goes, not a ghost. In the primary lessons: In stories and Halloween, haunted houses and castles are full of ghosts. In everyday life and stories, a bad mistake can «come back to haunt you». A «favourite haunt» is a place you love to go. Ghosts are not proven to be real; haunted-house tales are for fun and spooky stories. Phrases: «haunted house», «come back to haunt», «favourite haunt».

examples

• and to them that were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt. (Prophets 1SA.30.31, JPS 1917) tree →
• Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there; for it is told me that he dealeth very subtly. (Prophets 1SA.23.22, JPS 1917) tree →
• They say a ghost haunts the old castle. tree →
• We went to a haunted house at the fair. tree →
• The sad song haunted me for days. tree →
• That silly mistake came back to haunt him. tree →
• The park is our favourite haunt after school. tree →
• Pirates once haunted these seas. tree →
• The memory of the storm still haunts her. tree →

note

Regular verb: haunted (also an adjective: «a haunted house»). Pronounced «hawnt». Adjective: haunting (beautiful and sad, staying in your mind: «a haunting tune»). Science has found no evidence that ghosts exist; creaks and cold spots usually have ordinary causes.

In the corpora

• and to them that were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.
• Then they chatter of «violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted walls» (tawny = golden brown).
• Every school has legends like this: the haunted toilets, the secret tunnel, the head who sleeps in the office.
• There is no evidence that ghosts exist or that "a ghost's breath" can haunt you.
• Ghost stories are made up; a dead pet does not come back to scratch or haunt anyone.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «haunt» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.