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vis⋅it

[viz-it]
–verb (used with object)
1. to go to and stay with (a person or family) or at (a place) for a short time for reasons of sociability, politeness, business, curiosity, etc.: to visit a friend; to visit clients; to visit Paris.
2. to stay with as a guest.
3. to come or go to: to visit a church for prayer.
4. to go to for the purpose of official inspection or examination: a general visiting his troops.
5. to come to in order to comfort or aid: to visit the sick.
6. to come upon; assail; afflict: The plague visited London in 1665.
7. to cause trouble, suffering, etc., to come to: to visit him with sorrows.
8. to access, as a Web site.
9. to inflict, as punishment, vengeance, etc. (often fol. by on or upon).
–verb (used without object)
10. to make a visit.
11. to talk or chat casually: to visit on the phone with a friend.
12. to inflict punishment.
–noun
13. the act of or an instance of visiting: a nice, long visit.
14. a chat or talk: We had a good visit on the way back from the grocery store.
15. a call paid to a person, family, etc.
16. a stay or sojourn as a guest.
17. an official inspection or examination.
18. the act of an officer of a belligerent nation in boarding a vessel in order to ascertain the nature of its cargo, its nationality, etc.: the right of visit and search.

Origin:
1175–1225; ME visiten (v.) (< OF visiter) < L vīsitāre, freq. of vīsere to go to see, itself freq. of vidēre to see
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re·vis·it   (rē-vĭz'ĭt)   
tr.v.   re·vis·it·ed, re·vis·it·ing, re·vis·its
To visit again.
n.  A second or repeated visit.
re'vis·i·ta'tion n.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2visit
Function: noun
1 : a professional call (as by a physician to treat a patient)
2 : a call upon a professionalperson (as a physician or dentist) for consultation or treatment visits to your dentist>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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