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Having excessive or compulsive concern with something; Inhabited by or as if by apparitions; Showing emotional affliction or disquiet.

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  • We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.
  • Her expression became progressively more haunted
  • A haunted house
  • Adjective : a haunted castle. ,His haunted imagination gave him no peace. ,haunted by doubt he again turned to law books on the subject
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