REVISIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does revisit mean? 

• REVISIT (verb)
  The verb REVISIT has 1 sense:

1. visit again

  Familiarity information: REVISIT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVISIT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they revisit    ... he / she / it revisits   
Past simple: revisited   
Past participle: revisited   
-ing form: revisiting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Visit again

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

We revisited Rome after 25 years

Hypernyms (to "revisit" is one way to...):

return (go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

At these moments I wept bitterly and wished that peace would revisit my mind only that I might afford them consolation and happiness.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Did she ever talk of revisiting the place?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This man has been seen since the crime, for he was detected and pursued by Constable Walters on the same evening, when he had the audacity to revisit Wisteria Lodge.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The long-held approach to predicting seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness may need to be revisited, new research suggests.

(Study finds factors that may influence influenza vaccine effectiveness, NIH)

The researchers say this may yield new insights into the development of planetary systems and may cause experts to revisit theories of how moons form around planets.

(Astronomers Find First Evidence of Possible Moon Outside Our Solar System, NASA)

Mercury retrograde is also an ideal time to revisit places you’ve loved in the past and want to revisit, such as a spot your parents took you when you were little.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Ten years since, I flew through Europe half mad; with disgust, hate, and rage as my companions: now I shall revisit it healed and cleansed, with a very angel as my comforter.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Another cause of our being sometimes apart, was, that I had naturally an interest in going over to Blunderstone, and revisiting the old familiar scenes of my childhood; while Steerforth, after being there once, had naturally no great interest in going there again.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then, if my friend of the night comes to revisit me, he will find the bird flown.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh! With what a burning gush did hope revisit my heart!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)