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1. The activity of making visits
   "the purpose was to promote homes, clubs, visiting, and other services"

1. Go to see a place, as for entertainment
   "We went to visit the Eiffel Tower in the morning"
   - see
    
2. Go to a certain place as for sightseeing
   "Did you ever visit Paris?"
   - travel to
    
3. Pay a brief visit
   "The mayor likes to visit on some of the prominent citizens"
   - 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. Make (someone) do something unpleasant
   "The principal visited his rage on the students"
   - inflict, bring down, impose, obtrude
    
6. Talk socially without exchanging too much information
   "the men were sitting in the cafe and visiting"
   - 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"

Derived forms: visitings

See also: visitation, visitor

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

Encyclopedia: Visit Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure Visit, Board, Search and Seizure