Hunt vs. Haunt — What's the Difference?

Pursue and kill (a wild animal) for sport or food

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

Search determinedly for someone or something

To visit often; frequent

(of a device or system) oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state

To come to the mind of continually; obsess

(in change-ringing) move the place of a bell in a simple progression.

To be continually present in; pervade

An act of hunting wild animals or game

To recur or visit often, especially as a ghost.

A search

A place much frequented.

An oscillating motion about a desired speed, position, or state.

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

To pursue (game) for food or sport.

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

To search through (an area) for prey

(transitive) To make uneasy, restless.

To make use of (hounds, for example) in pursuing game.

(transitive) To stalk; to follow.

To pursue intensively so as to capture or kill

To live habitually; to stay, to remain.

To seek out; search for.

To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.

To drive out forcibly, especially by harassing; chase away

To practise; to devote oneself to.

To pursue game.

(intransitive) To persist in staying or visiting.

To make a search; seek.

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

To yaw back and forth about a flight path, as if seeking a new direction or another angle of attack. Used of an aircraft, rocket, or space vehicle.

(dialect) A ghost.

To rotate up and down or back and forth without being deflected by the pilot. Used of a control surface or a rocket motor in gimbals.

A lair or feeding place of animals.

To oscillate about a selected value. Used of a machine, instrument, or system.

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

To swing back and forth; oscillate. Used of an indicator on a display or instrument panel.

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.

The act or sport of hunting

To practice; to devote one's self to.

A hunting expedition or outing, usually with horses and hounds.

To accustom; to habituate.

Those taking part in such an expedition or outing.

To persist in staying or visiting.

The hunting season for a particular animal

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

A diligent search or pursuit

The habit of resorting to a place.

(ambitransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.

Practice; skill.

(ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).

A frequently visited place

(transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.

Follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to;

(transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.

Haunt like a ghost; pursue;

(transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.

Be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place;

To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.

To shift up and down in order regularly.

To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.

The act of hunting.

A hunting expedition.

An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.

A pack of hunting dogs.

To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer.

To search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; - often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence.

To drive; to chase; - with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.

To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.

To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.

To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.

To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.

To seek; to pursue; to search; - with for or after.

To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, or the like; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.

To shift up and down in order regularly.

The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.

The game secured in the hunt.

A pack of hounds.

An association of huntsmen.

A district of country hunted over.

Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)

United States architect (1827-1895)

British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)

An association of huntsmen who hunt for sport

An instance of searching for something;

The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts

The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport

Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals);

Pursue or chase relentlessly;

Chase away, with as with force;

Yaw back and forth about a flight path;

Oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent;

Seek, search for;

Search (an area) for prey;