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Haunted

adjective

1.

Having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something. Synonyms: obsessed, preoccupied, taken up. "Was absolutely obsessed with the girl" , "Got no help from his wife who was preoccupied with the children" , "He was taken up in worry for the old woman"

2.

Showing emotional affliction or disquiet.

3.

Inhabited by or as if by apparitions.

Haunt

verb

(past & past part. haunted; pres. part. haunting)

1.

Follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to. Synonym: stalk. "The ghost of her mother haunted her"

2.

Haunt like a ghost; pursue. Synonyms: ghost, obsess.

3.

Be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place. Synonym: frequent.

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"Haunted" Quotes from Famous Books

... it's not a place I should like to live in. I'm not one to believe in ghosts or such nonsense, but if I could have any such foolish thoughts, I should have them here. The house looks as if it was haunted, somehow." ...

— Fenton's Quest • M. E. Braddon

... cold spirituality of the moon-beams, and communicates, as it were, a heart and sensibilities of human tenderness to the forms which fancy summons up. It converts them from snow-images into men and women. Glancing at the looking-glass, we behold—deep within its haunted verge—the smouldering glow of the half-extinguished anthracite, the white moon-beams on the floor, and a repetition of all the gleam and shadow of the picture, with one remove further from the actual, and nearer to the imaginative. Then, at such an hour, and with this scene ...

— The Scarlet Letter • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... was a proof of the little value placed upon timber in a spot so inaccessible. One fir had an enormous bole fantastically branched like that of an English elm, and on its mossy bark was a spot such as the hand might cover, fired by a wandering beam, that awoke recollections of the dream-haunted woods before the illusion of their endlessness ...

— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker

... was now on the high-road to liberty. I had broken the bonds that held me so firmly; and now, instead of fears of recapture, that before had haunted my imagination whenever I thought of running away, I felt as light as a feather, and seemed to be helped onward by an ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 • Various

... Abire ad tuum locum!"—still Like a visible nightmare he sits by me,— The exorcism has lost its skill; And I hear again in my haunted room The husky wheeze and the ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) • Various

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