noun
- The activity of making visits.
- usage: "the purpose was to promote homes, clubs, visiting, and other services"
verb
- Go to see a place, as for entertainment.
- usage: "We went to see the Eiffel Tower in the morning"
- Go to certain places as for sightseeing.
- usage: "Did you ever visit Paris"
- Pay a brief visit.
- usage: "The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens"
- Come to see in an official or professional capacity.
- usage: "The governor visited the prison"; "The grant administrator visited the laboratory"
- Impose something unpleasant.
- usage: "The principal visited his rage on the students"
- synonyms: inflict, bring down, visit, impose
- Talk socially without exchanging too much information.
- usage: "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
- synonyms: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
- Stay with as a guest.
- usage: "Every summer, we visited our relatives in the country for a month"
- synonyms: visit
- Assail.
- usage: "He was visited with a terrible illness that killed him quickly"
- synonyms: visit
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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