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haunted

/hawn-tid, hahn-/US // ˈhɔn tɪd, ˈhɑn- //UK // (ˈhɔːntɪd) //

闹鬼的,闹鬼,闹事的,闹鬼的人

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : inhabited or frequented by ghosts: a haunted castle.
    • : preoccupied, as with an emotion, memory, or idea; obsessed: His haunted imagination gave him no peace.
    • : disturbed; distressed; worried: Haunted by doubt he again turned to law books on the subject.

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Examples

  • TikTok users created half-pint haunted houses, complete with micro-clowns and to-scale blood stains.

  • Everyone, no matter where they’re trapped in the world, is also trapped in their own head, and some people’s heads are a little more haunted than others.

  • It won at its haunted house of Utah in the wee Eastern hours, forcing five turnovers so that a person in the East might have kept waking and wondering whether a fumble was a new fumble or a replay of a previous fumble.

  • Official guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention marked traditional celebrations such as trick-or-treating and haunted houses as high risk for potential coronavirus exposure.

  • External stimuli are useful but what if instead of a haunted house happening around you, you were immersed in it.

  • Despite his efforts to live in the present, he seemed haunted by the specter of his father.

  • He read technical journals about film and haunted the theaters and film production companies.

  • Even though the police and my family and friends believed me, that one voice of doubt is the one that haunted me most.

  • Were Israeli soldiers so haunted by what they saw and did in the last Gaza war that they took their own lives?

  • The Lotus and the Storm turns out to be a grand, haunted melodrama with elements of camp, delivered in fragmentary reveries.

  • Alessandro's face haunted him, and also the memory of Ramona's, as she lay tossing and moaning in the wretched Cahuilla hovel.

  • Mrs. Paula was one of those women that haunted the cheap shops and bargain-counters, and was always in debt.

  • Pa Babcock affirmed the tale and declared that this was why he had left off working on the haunted farm.

  • Once, when a boy, he had seen Henry Irving in Faust; he saw the devils on the haunted mountain; he heard their hideous cries.

  • I should be ashamed that pages, tear-stained and dream-haunted, should fall beneath the eyes of grave, sober-minded folk.