Haunt vs. Haint — What's the Difference?

To inhabit, visit, or appear to in the form of a ghost or other supernatural being.

Variant of haunt.

To visit often; frequent

A ghost; a supernatural being; haunt.

To come to the mind of continually; obsess

To be continually present in; pervade

To recur or visit often, especially as a ghost.

A place much frequented.

Also hant or ha'nt (hănt) or haint (hānt) Chiefly Southern US A ghost or other supernatural being.

(transitive) To inhabit or to visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).

(transitive) To make uneasy, restless.

(transitive) To stalk; to follow.

To live habitually; to stay, to remain.

To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.

To practise; to devote oneself to.

(intransitive) To persist in staying or visiting.

A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout.

(dialect) A ghost.

A lair or feeding place of animals.

To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.

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.

To practice; to devote one's self to.

To accustom; to habituate.

To persist in staying or visiting.

A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.

The habit of resorting to a place.

Practice; skill.

A frequently visited place

Follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to;

Haunt like a ghost; pursue;

Be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place;