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to revisit

to revisit

26 3.6
To go to a place again after some time
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈvɪzɪt/
translation icon : volver a visitar
  • After ten years, she decided to revisit her favorite vacation spot to see how much it had changed.
  • revisit sites
  • revisit the old
  • revisit history

Stroll through the arcades on the main quad, relax on Meyer Green, and revisit your favorite haunts with old friends.

Examples

  • Another way to use naturalists' or museums' records is to revisit sites where specific species historically occurred.

    Academic text (2004)
  • In memory, I also revisit big universities with teeming campuses: Boise State, Wright State, Southeastern Missouri.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Like anything, you can revisit this decision about staying.

  • To be able to revisit those places... which meant so very much to us.

  • To understand why this is the case, we must first revisit the history of the region in the 20th century.

    Academic text (2009)
  • The findings suggest that to have such an impact on learning, it may be time to revisit library circulation policy.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Charlie's prescription was to get out more often and revisit the land of the living.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Nevertheless, as time passed, it seemed to Anne that she ought to revisit Tunisia.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • We'll be revisiting the touchstone moments of the past two years, with retrospectives all weekend long.

  • In this PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel, a man revisits his stomping grounds.

    Fiction book (2002)

Synonyms

to come again
vsto revisit
47 2.1

To return to a place or situation after a short time away

is used for returning after a longer time has passed
to reenter
vsto revisit
14 3.2

To go back into a place or situation after leaving it

is used for coming back after some time, not merely for going back inside
to reexplore
vsto revisit
4.8

To look at something again to find new information

is about going back after time rather than investigating with a purpose

How Often

to revisit
26 3.6
to return
1.0
to stop by
  • Informal
494 2.5

Surface Forms

revisit infinitive
revisited past
revisited past participle
revisiting present participle
revisits third person singular

Morphology

revisit = visit (transparent) = re + visit

This is a standard and fully compositional use of re- meaning 'again' added to 'visit'.

Etymology

Revisit comes from the parts re- 'again' and visit 'to go and see', so to revisit a place is simply to go there again, like returning to your hometown or a favourite restaurant.