haunt
verb[T]
uk/hɔːnt/us/hɑːnt/hauntverb[T](REPEATEDLY TROUBLE)
B2
tocauserepeatedsufferingoranxiety:
使经常苦恼，不断困扰Fighting in Vietnam was anexperiencethat would haunt him for therestof hislife.越南战争的经历给他日后的生活留下了挥之不去的阴影。
30yearsafter thefirehe is still haunted byimagesofdeathanddestruction.那场火灾过去30年之后，死亡和毁灭的场景仍在他脑海中挥之不去。
- Memories of thesemifinaldefeathaunted him for therestof hiscareer.
- Hisexperiencesin theprisoncampcontinuedto haunt him.
- She was haunted bymemoriesof herunhappychildhood.
- Thenoveltellsthestoryof asoldierhaunted by theeventsof thewar.
- Theexperienceoffailurecontinuesto haunt him.
Making people sad, shocked and upset
- aback
- amiss
- appal
- be laughing on the other side ofyourfaceidiom
- bite
- gnaw
- heartbreaker
- heartbreakingly
- hit/touch a (raw) nerveidiom
- horrify
- mess
- nerve
- sensitivity
- shakesomeoneout ofsomething
- shakesomeoneup
- shake/rocksomethingtoitsfoundationsidiom
- shattering
- shocker
- tear
- toxic
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Causing anxiety and worry
hauntverb[T](SPIRIT)
B2
(of aghost) toappearin aplacerepeatedly:
（鬼魂）经常出没Aghostlyladyis said to haunt thestairwaylookingfor herchildren.据说有一个幽灵似的女人经常出现在楼梯上寻找她的孩子。
Souls, spirits & ghosts
- apparition
- astral plane
- aura
- chi
- chthonic
- ectoplasm
- ghostly
- incubus
- necromancer
- necromancy
- Ouija board
- phantom
- soul
- spectre
- spirit
- spiritualism
- séance
- wight
- wraith
- zombie
haunt
noun[C]
uk/hɔːnt/us/hɑːnt/aplaceoftenvisited:
常去的地方Thisbarused to be one ofyouroldhaunts, didn't it, Jake?这个酒吧你以前经常去，对不对，杰克？
Synonym
Visiting
- attraction
- beard the lion (inhis/herden)idiom
- been
- call
- call (in) onsomeone
- call by
- come round
- happen along/by(somewhere)
- homestay
- house-to-house
- look around(somewhere/something)
- look in
- pay
- pop
- stop
- stop in
- stop offsomewhere
- stop over
- swing by/past(something)
- visit withsomeone