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Haunt vs. Nag

Haunt and Nag Definitions

Haunt

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

Nag

To annoy by constant scolding, complaining, or urging.

Haunt

To visit often; frequent
Haunted the movie theaters.

Nag

To torment persistently, as with anxiety or pain.

Haunt

To come to the mind of continually; obsess
A riddle that haunted me all morning.

Nag

To scold, complain, or find fault constantly
Nagging at the children.
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Haunt

To be continually present in; pervade
The melancholy that haunts the composer's music.

Nag

To be a constant source of anxiety or annoyance
The half-remembered quotation nagged at my mind.

Haunt

To recur or visit often, especially as a ghost.

Nag

One who nags.

Haunt

A place much frequented.

Nag

An old or worn-out horse.
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Haunt

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

Nag

(Slang) A racehorse.

Haunt

(transitive) To inhabit or to visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
A couple of ghosts haunt the old, burnt-down house.

Nag

(Archaic) A small saddle horse or pony.

Haunt

(transitive) To make uneasy, restless.
The memory of his past failures haunted him.

Nag

A small horse; a pony.
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Haunt

(transitive) To stalk; to follow.
The policeman haunted him, following him everywhere.

Nag

An old, useless horse.

Haunt

To live habitually; to stay, to remain.

Nag

A paramour.

Haunt

To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.

Nag

Someone or something that nags.

Haunt

To practise; to devote oneself to.

Nag

A repeated complaint or reminder.

Haunt

(intransitive) To persist in staying or visiting.

Nag

A persistent, bothersome thought or worry.

Haunt

A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout.
The shopping mall is a popular haunt of the local teenagers in this town.
I went back the town I used to live and visited all my old haunts.

Nag

(ambitransitive) To repeatedly remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters.
Anyone would think that I nagged at you, Amanda! (From Amanda! by Robin Klein)

Haunt

(dialect) A ghost.

Nag

To bother with persistent thoughts or memories.
The notion that he forgot something nagged him the rest of the day.

Haunt

A lair or feeding place of animals.

Nag

To bother or disturb persistently in any way.
A nagging pain in his left knee
A nagging north wind

Haunt

To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.
You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house.
Those cares that haunt the court and town.

Nag

A small horse; a pony; hence, any horse, especially one that is of inferior breeding or useless.

Haunt

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.
Foul spirits haunt my resting place.

Nag

A paramour; - in contempt.

Haunt

To practice; to devote one's self to.
That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . . . is cursed.
Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.

Nag

A person who nags, especially habitually; called also nagger.

Haunt

To accustom; to habituate.
Haunt thyself to pity.

Nag

To tease in a petty way; to scold habitually; to annoy; to fret pertinaciously.

Haunt

To persist in staying or visiting.
I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors.

Nag

Someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault

Haunt

A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.
The household nook,The haunt of all affections pure.
The feeble soul, a haunt of fears.

Nag

An old or over-worked horse

Haunt

The habit of resorting to a place.
The haunt you have got about the courts.

Nag

Bother persistently with trivial complaints;
She nags her husband all day long

Haunt

Practice; skill.
Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt.

Nag

Worry persistently;
Nagging concerns and doubts

Haunt

A frequently visited place

Nag

Remind or urge constantly;
She nagged to take a vacation

Haunt

Follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to;
Her ex-boyfriend stalked her
The ghost of her mother haunted her

Haunt

Haunt like a ghost; pursue;
Fear of illness haunts her

Haunt

Be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place;
She haunts the ballet

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