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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.
EXPANDto 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.
COLLAPSEto inflict, as punishment, vengeance, etc. (often followed 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.
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Revisiting
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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.
EXPANDan official inspection or examination.
Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English visiten (v.) (< Old French visiter) < Latin vīsitāre, frequentative of vīsere to go to see, itself frequentative of vidēre to see
1175–1225; Middle English visiten (v.) (< Old French visiter) < Latin vīsitāre, frequentative of vīsere to go to see, itself frequentative of vidēre to see
Related forms
in·ter·vis·it, verb (used without object)
non·vis·it·ing, adjective
pre·vis·it, noun, verb
re·vis·it, verb, noun
un·vis·it·ed, adjective
EXPANDun·vis·it·ing, adjective
COLLAPSE
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Word Origin & History
visit
early 13c., "come to (a person) to comfort or benefit," from O.Fr. visiter, from L. visitare "to go to see, come to inspect," frequentative of visere "behold, visit" (a person or place), from pp. stem of videre "to see, notice, observe" (see vision). Originally of the deity,
EXPANDlater of pastors and doctors (c.1300), general sense of "pay a call" is from 1620s. Meaning "come upon, afflict" (in ref. to sickness, punishment, etc.) is recorded from mid-14c. The noun is 1620s, from the verb.
COLLAPSE
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