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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

... had only tentatively put to his friend, rose, insistent, demanding a more informed answer. Was this man—more than objectionable, probably criminal—paying court to Lorry? It was a horrible idea, that haunted him throughout the night. He recalled Mayer's manner to her the evening of his visit, and hers to him. Not that he thought she could have been attracted to the man; she was too fine, her instincts too true. But on the other hand she was young, so unlearned in the world's ways, so ...

— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner

... change which two days of killing anxiety had made in them. True, they had not slept for forty-eight hours, except an hour or two after they had been forced to stop and eat. True, they had not eaten except in snatches. But it was not that alone which made their faces look haggard and old and haunted. They, too, were thinking of Lost Child Creek and How ...

— The Flying U's Last Stand • B. M. Bower

... "My brother is haunted by the evil spirits sent abroad for his destruction by Chimalman, so shall he presently run mad and become sacred to Zotzilaha Chimalman and suddenly die, except he obey me. For I, Atlamatzin, that am without fear ...

— Martin Conisby's Vengeance • Jeffery Farnol

... few days, yet will my heart ever turn to thee and to thee only." These words of Prince Ahmad gladdened the heart of Peri-Banu and drove away the darksome doubts and mysterious misgivings which ever haunted her nightly dreams and her daily musings.—And as the morn began to dawn Shahrazad ...

— Supplemental Nights, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton

... whom they saw rarely when they accompanied Daddy to the London train; a Policeman, who walked endlessly up and down the muddy or dusty lanes, and came to the front door with a dirty little book in his big hands at Christmas-time; and a Tramp, who slept in barns and haystacks, and haunted the great London Road ever since they had once handed him a piece of Mrs. Horton's sticky cake in paper over the old grey fence. Him they regarded with a special awe and admiration, not unmixed with ...

— The Extra Day • Algernon Blackwood

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