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to revisit

to revisit

43 3.6
To go to a place again after some time
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈvɪzɪt/
: 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
420 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
19 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
1 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
43 3.6
to return
∞ 1.0
to stop by
  • Informal
560 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.