<p><strong>Verb</strong> (used with object)</p><ul><li>To visit habitually or appear to frequently as a spirit or ghost: to haunt a house; to haunt a person.</li><li>To recur persistently to the consciousness of; remain with: Memories of love haunted him.</li><li>To visit frequently; go to often: He haunted the galleries and bars that the artists went to.</li><li>Synonyms: frequent.</li><li>To frequent the company of; be often with: He haunted famous men, hoping to gain celebrity for himself.</li><li>To disturb or distress; cause to have anxiety; trouble; worry: His youthful escapades came back to haunt him.</li><li>Synonyms: plague, vex, beset, obsess.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong> (used without object)</p><ul><li>To reappear continually as a spirit or ghost.</li><li>To visit habitually or regularly.</li><li>To remain persistently; loiter; stay; linger.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Often haunts: a place frequently visited: to return to one's old haunts.</li><li>Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. and North England: a ghost.</li></ul>