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come back to haunt

come back to haunt is the alternative form of come back to bite.

Meaning of come back to bite

Verb

come back to bite (third-person singular simple present comes back to bite, present participle coming back to bite, simple past came back to bite, past participle come back to bite)

  1. (figuratively, transitive) To cause problems for one at a later time.
    Synonyms:
    bite in the arse, bite in the ass, come back to bite in the ass

Forms of come back to haunt

third-person singular presentcomes back to haunt
present participlecoming back to haunt
pastcame back to haunt
past participlecome back to haunt

Questions about come back to haunt

What is come back to haunt the alternative form of?
Come back to haunt is the alternative form of come back to bite.

Words near come back to haunt in the dictionary

  1. come away empty
  2. come back
  3. come back from
  4. come back from the dead
  5. come back to bite
  6. come back to haunt
  7. come back to one's senses
  8. come before
  9. come between
  10. come by
  11. Come By Chance

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Adapted from Wiktionary: come back to haunt (page history and authors); come back to bite (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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