haunt

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
haunt/hɔːnt/

▶verb

• 1 (of a ghost) manifest itself regularly at (a place).

  ■ (of a person) frequent (a place).

• 2 be persistently and disturbingly present in (the mind): the sight haunted me for years.

▶noun a place frequented by a specified person: a favourite haunt of pickpockets.

– derivatives
haunter noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. hanter, of Gmc origin; distantly rel. to home.