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Difference Between Visit and Visited

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Visit

To go to see or spend time with (someone); call on socially
Visit friends.

Visited

To go to see or spend time with (someone); call on socially
Visit friends.

Visit

To go to see in order to aid or console
Visit the sick and dying.

Visited

To go to see in order to aid or console
Visit the sick and dying.

Visit

To stay with (someone) as a guest.

Visited

To stay with (someone) as a guest.
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Visit

To go to see in an official or professional capacity
Visited the dentist.
A priest visiting his parishioners.

Visited

To go to see in an official or professional capacity
Visited the dentist.
A priest visiting his parishioners.

Visit

To go to see or spend time at (a place) with a certain intent
Visit a museum.
Visited London.

Visited

To go to see or spend time at (a place) with a certain intent
Visit a museum.
Visited London.

Visit

To access (a website).

Visited

To access (a website).
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Visit

To occur to or occupy the mind of
Was visited by a bizarre thought.

Visited

To occur to or occupy the mind of
Was visited by a bizarre thought.

Visit

To consider or discuss
Has she visited that topic on her blog?.

Visited

To consider or discuss
Has she visited that topic on her blog?.

Visit

To afflict or assail
A plague visited the village.

Visited

To afflict or assail
A plague visited the village.

Visit

To inflict or impose
In the Bible, God visits his wrath on the sinful.

Visited

To inflict or impose
In the Bible, God visits his wrath on the sinful.

Visit

(Archaic) To inflict punishment on or for; avenge
The sins of the ancestors were visited on their descendants.

Visited

(Archaic) To inflict punishment on or for; avenge
The sins of the ancestors were visited on their descendants.

Visit

To make a visit.

Visited

To make a visit.

Visit

(Informal) To converse or chat
Stay and visit with me for a while.

Visited

(Informal) To converse or chat
Stay and visit with me for a while.

Visit

The act or an instance of visiting a person or place.

Visited

The act or an instance of visiting a person or place.

Visit

A stay or sojourn as a guest.

Visited

A stay or sojourn as a guest.

Visit

(transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)

Visited

Past participle of visit

Visit

To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
She decided to visit her grandparents for Christmas.

Visited

That has received a visit or visits.

Visit

(transitive) Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)

Visit

To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).

Visit

(transitive) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).

Visit

(transitive) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.

Visit

(transitive) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)

Visit

(transitive) To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.

Visit

A single act of visiting.
Next time you're in Manchester, give me a visit.
We paid a quick visit to James on the way up to Scotland.

Visit

A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.

Visit

To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

Visit

To go or come to see for inspection, examination, correction of abuses, etc.; to examine, to inspect; as, a bishop visits his diocese; a superintendent visits persons or works under his charge.

Visit

To come to for the purpose of chastising, rewarding, comforting; to come upon with reward or retribution; to appear before or judge; as, to visit in mercy; to visit one in wrath.
[God] hath visited and redeemed his people.

Visit

To make a visit or visits; to maintain visiting relations; to practice calling on others.

Visit

The act of visiting, or going to see a person or thing; a brief stay of business, friendship, ceremony, curiosity, or the like, usually longer than a call; as, a visit of civility or respect; a visit to Saratoga; the visit of a physician.

Visit

The act of going to view or inspect; an official or formal inspection; examination; visitation; as, the visit of a trustee or inspector.

Visit

The act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time;
He dropped by for a visit

Visit

A meeting arranged by the visitor to see someone (such as a doctor or lawyer) for treatment or advice;
He scheduled a visit to the dentist

Visit

The act of visiting in an official capacity (as for an inspection)

Visit

The act of going to see some person in a professional capacity;
A visit to the dentist

Visit

A temporary stay (e.g., as a guest)

Visit

Visit a place, as for entertainment;
We went to see the Eiffel Tower in the morning

Visit

Go to certain places as for sightseeing;
Did you ever visit Paris?

Visit

Pay a brief visit;
The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens

Visit

Come to see in an official or professional capacity;
The governor visited the prison
The grant administrator visited the laboratory

Visit

Impose something unpleasant;
The principal visited his rage on the students

Visit

Talk socially without exchanging too much information;
The men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze

Visit

Stay with as a guest;
Every summer, we visited our relatives in the country for a month

Visit

Assail;
He was visited with a terrible illness that killed him quickly

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