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{
"term": "haunt",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "haunt",
"heSheIt": "haunts"
},
"pastSimple": "haunted",
"pastParticiple": "haunted",
"ingForm": "haunting"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "if the ghost of a dead person haunts a place, people say that they have seen it there",
"sensetop": "haunt something/somebody",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "A headless rider haunts the country lanes."
},
{
"text": "I’ll come back to haunt you!"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["reputedly", "supposedly"],
"verb + haunt": ["come back to", "return to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "if something unpleasant haunts you, it keeps coming to your mind so that you cannot forget it",
"sensetop": "haunt somebody",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The memory of that day still haunts me."
},
{
"text": "For years she was haunted by guilt."
},
{
"text": "He will be haunted forever by his failed attempt to rescue the children."
},
{
"text": "These visions continued to haunt her for many years."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["still", "forever"],
"verb + haunt": ["continue to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to continue to cause problems for somebody for a long time",
"sensetop": "haunt somebody",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "That decision **came back to haunt him**."
},
{
"text": "She has been haunted by her past during her career."
}
],
"topics": ["Difficulty and failure"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/hɔːnt/",
"audio": "ha/haunt/haunt__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/hɔːnts/",
"audio": "ha/haunt/haunts__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhɔːntɪd/",
"audio": "ha/haunt/haunted__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhɔːntɪŋ/",
"audio": "ha/haunt/haunting__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/hɔːnt/",
"audio": "ha/haunt/haunt__us_1_rr.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/hɔːnts/",
"audio": "ha/haunt/haunts__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhɔːntɪd/",
"audio": "ha/haunt/haunted__us_1_rr.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhɔːntɪŋ/",
"audio": "ha/haunt/haunting__us_1_rr.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘frequent (a place)’): from Old French hanter, of Germanic origin; distantly related to home."
}