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noun
A single act of visiting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, insurance, medicine, sciences
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verb
To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
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verb
Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
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verb
Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: sojourn
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Broader terms: stay
noun
the act of going to see some person in a professional capacity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: meeting, coming together
Narrower terms: call
noun
the act of visiting in an official capacity (as for an inspection)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: meeting, coming together
Narrower terms: flying visit
noun
the act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: meeting, coming together
Narrower terms: visitation, site visit, call, visiting
noun
a meeting arranged by the visitor to see someone (such as a doctor or lawyer) for treatment or advice
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: meeting, get together
verb
assail
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: afflict, smite
verb
impose something unpleasant
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: inflict, bring down, impose
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Broader terms: communicate, intercommunicate
Narrower terms: order, prescribe, dictate, intrude, obtrude, clamp, give, foist
verb
talk socially without exchanging too much information
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: converse, discourse
Narrower terms: shmooze, shmoose, schmooze, schmoose, jawbone
verb
go to certain places as for sightseeing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: travel to
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: travel, trip, jaunt
Narrower terms: sightsee, frequent, haunt
verb
come to see in an official or professional capacity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: inspect
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verb
pay a brief visit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: call in, call
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: meet, get together
Narrower terms: see, drop by, drop in, come by
verb
go to see a place, as for entertainment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: see
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Broader terms: tour
Narrower terms: take in
verb
stay with as a guest
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: bide, abide, stay
History
From Middle English visiten, from Old French visiter, from Latin vīsitō, frequentative of vīsō (“behold, survey”), from videō (“see”). Cognate with Old Saxon wīsōn (“to visit, afflict”), archaic German weisen (“to visit, afflict”). Displaced native Old English sēċan (“to visit”) and sōcn (“a visit”). The noun is from French visite or the verb. Doublet of visite.
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