Haunt vs. Haint — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Haunt and Haint
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Definitions
Haunt
To inhabit, visit, or appear to in the form of a ghost or other supernatural being.
Haint
Variant of haunt.
Haunt
To visit often; frequent
Haunted the movie theaters.
Haint
A ghost; a supernatural being; haunt.
Haunt
To come to the mind of continually; obsess
A riddle that haunted me all morning.
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Haunt
To be continually present in; pervade
The melancholy that haunts the composer's music.
Haunt
To recur or visit often, especially as a ghost.
Haunt
A place much frequented.
Haunt
Also hant or ha'nt (hănt) or haint (hānt) Chiefly Southern US A ghost or other supernatural being.
Haunt
(transitive) To inhabit or to visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
A couple of ghosts haunt the old, burnt-down house.
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Haunt
(transitive) To make uneasy, restless.
The memory of his past failures haunted him.
Haunt
(transitive) To stalk; to follow.
The policeman haunted him, following him everywhere.
Haunt
To live habitually; to stay, to remain.
Haunt
To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.
Haunt
To practise; to devote oneself to.
Haunt
(intransitive) To persist in staying or visiting.
Haunt
A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout.
The shopping mall is a popular haunt of the local teenagers in this town.
I went back the town I used to live and visited all my old haunts.
Haunt
(dialect) A ghost.
Haunt
A lair or feeding place of animals.
Haunt
To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.
You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house.
Those cares that haunt the court and town.
Haunt
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.
Foul spirits haunt my resting place.
Haunt
To practice; to devote one's self to.
That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . . . is cursed.
Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.
Haunt
To accustom; to habituate.
Haunt thyself to pity.
Haunt
To persist in staying or visiting.
I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors.
Haunt
A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.
The household nook,The haunt of all affections pure.
The feeble soul, a haunt of fears.
Haunt
The habit of resorting to a place.
The haunt you have got about the courts.
Haunt
Practice; skill.
Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt.
Haunt
A frequently visited place
Haunt
Follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to;
Her ex-boyfriend stalked her
The ghost of her mother haunted her
Haunt
Haunt like a ghost; pursue;
Fear of illness haunts her
Haunt
Be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place;
She haunts the ballet
