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haunted house
1. A house that is said to be visited by and/or home to ghosts or spirits. We're going to have a séance at the haunted house down the street, to see if we can talk to the spirits.
2. A house decorated to be spooky that serves as an attraction, usually around Halloween. I think the kids are too young to go to a haunted house, honey—I don't want them to have nightmares. Every year at Halloween, my family turns the garage into a haunted house by playing spooky music and hanging cobwebs everywhere.
come back to haunt one
and return to haunt oneFig. [for a bad memory] to recur; for the consequences of a bad decision to affect one negatively later. I never dreamed that a little thing like a traffic ticket could come back to haunt me years later.
return to haunt
one Go to come back to haunt one.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Aragorn | | - | Literature |
Deitra | | - | English (Rare) |
Sherlock | | SHUR-lahk (English) | Literature |
Donato | | do-NAH-to (Italian, Spanish) | Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
Berwyn | | - | Welsh |
Ilse | | IL-sə (German) | German, Dutch |