visit

visit
[[t]vɪ̱zɪt[/t]]
♦
visits, visiting, visited
1) VERB If you visit someone, you go to see them and spend time with them.

[V n] He wanted to visit his brother in Worcester...

[V n] He was visited by an old friend from Iraq...

Bill would visit on weekends.

N-COUNT
Visit is also a noun.

Helen had recently paid him a visit.

2) VERB If you visit a place, you go there for a short time.

[V n] He'll be visiting four cities including Cagliari in Sardinia...

[V n] Caroline visited all the big stores.

[V-ing] ...a visiting truck driver.

N-COUNT: usu N to n
Visit is also a noun.

...the Pope's visit to Canada... I paid a visit to my local print shop.

3) VERB If you visit a professional person such as a doctor or lawyer, you go and see them in order to get professional advice. If they visit you, they come to see you in order to give you professional advice. [mainly BRIT]

[V n] If necessary the patient can then visit his doctor for further advice...

[V n] A doctor will visit you in your apartment.

Syn:
N-COUNT: usu with supp
Visit is also a noun.

You may have regular home visits from a neonatal nurse.

4) V-PASSIVE If something very unpleasant is visited upon you, it happens to you. [FORMAL]

[be V-ed upon/on n] Violence is visited upon us every day...

[be V-ed upon/on n] Death and suffering had been visited on thousands of innocents.

Phrasal Verbs:
Syn:
be inflicted

English dictionary. 2008.

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