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Verb: visit  vizit
  1. Go to see a place, as for entertainment
    - see
     
  2. Go to certain places as for sightseeing
    "Did you ever visit Paris?"
    - travel to
     
  3. Pay a brief visit
    - call in, call
     
  4. Come to see in an official or professional capacity
    "The governor visited the prison"; "The grant administrator visited the laboratory"
    - inspect
     
  5. Impose something unpleasant
    "The principal visited his rage on the students"
    - inflict, bring down, impose, obtrude
     
  6. Talk socially without exchanging too much information
    - chew the fat, shoot the breeze [N. Amer], chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver [UK, dialect], gas, gab
     
  7. Stay with as a guest
    "Every summer, we visited our relatives in the country for a month"
     
  8. Assail
    "He was visited with a terrible illness that killed him quickly"
Noun: visit  vizit
  1. The act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time
    "he dropped by for a visit"
     
  2. A meeting arranged by the visitor to see someone (such as a doctor or lawyer) for treatment or advice
    "he scheduled a visit to the dentist"
     
  3. The act of visiting in an official capacity (as for an inspection)
     
  4. The act of going to see some person in a professional capacity
    "a visit to the dentist"
     
  5. A temporary stay (e.g., as a guest)
    - sojourn

Derived forms: visited, visits, visiting

See also: visitation, visiting, visitor

Type of: abide [archaic], afflict, bide [archaic], coming together, communicate, converse, discourse, get together, intercommunicate, jaunt, meet, meeting, smite, stay, tour, travel, trip

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