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haunting
(encz) | haunting,chytlavý adj: jose |
haunting
(encz) | haunting,pronásledování n: Zdeněk Brož |
haunting
(encz) | haunting,strašení n: Zdeněk Brož |
Haunting
(gcide) | Haunt \Haunt\ (h[aum]nt; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haunted; p.
pr. & vb. n. Haunting.] [F. hanter; of uncertain origin,
perh. from an assumed LL. ambitare to go about, fr. L. ambire
(see Ambition); or cf. Icel. heimta to demand, regain, akin
to heim home (see Home). [root]36.]
1. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit
pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.
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You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house.
--Shak.
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Those cares that haunt the court and town. --Swift.
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2. To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost
or apparition; -- said of spirits or ghosts, especially of
dead people; as, the murdered man haunts the house where
he died.
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Foul spirits haunt my resting place. --Fairfax.
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3. To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obs.]
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That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . .
. is cursed. --Chaucer.
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Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.
--Ascham.
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4. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.]
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Haunt thyself to pity. --Wyclif.
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haunting
(wn) | haunting
adj 1: continually recurring to the mind; "haunting memories";
"the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a
haunting beauty"- Claudia Cassidy [syn: haunting,
persistent]
2: having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect; "from two
handsome and talented young men to two haunting horrors of
disintegration"-Charles Lee |
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hauntingly
(encz) | hauntingly, |
Haunting
(gcide) | Haunt \Haunt\ (h[aum]nt; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haunted; p.
pr. & vb. n. Haunting.] [F. hanter; of uncertain origin,
perh. from an assumed LL. ambitare to go about, fr. L. ambire
(see Ambition); or cf. Icel. heimta to demand, regain, akin
to heim home (see Home). [root]36.]
1. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit
pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.
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You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house.
--Shak.
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Those cares that haunt the court and town. --Swift.
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2. To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost
or apparition; -- said of spirits or ghosts, especially of
dead people; as, the murdered man haunts the house where
he died.
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Foul spirits haunt my resting place. --Fairfax.
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3. To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obs.]
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That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . .
. is cursed. --Chaucer.
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Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.
--Ascham.
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4. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.]
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Haunt thyself to pity. --Wyclif.
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