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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
revisit
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Maria was eager to revisit her first school.
▪ Mary Stout, a combat nurse, revisited Vietnam two years ago.
▪ Mayer has encouraged the actors to revisit the familiar text.
▪ They revisited many of the places they had gone to on their honeymoon.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And no matter how many times you revisit the place, it never gets better.
▪ As it crawls round and round in circles it keeps revisiting the same pebbles.
▪ By revisiting his own previous work, Delano has achieved something that very few photographers have even attempted before.
▪ Constantly revisit the disciplines and impact of your specific strategies.
▪ Having made the find and recorded that spot, he did not revisit the tree for nearly fifteen years.
▪ I begin by revisiting the arguments in the opening speeches about why we need the Bill.
▪ Levey said he plans to revisit the same sites this spring and summer.
▪ This means revisiting the mortgage market every few years to find a new loan.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Revisit

Revisit \Re*vis"it\, v. t.

  1. To visit again.
    --Milton.

  2. To revise. [Obs.]
    --Ld. Berners.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
revisit

1520s, from Middle French revisiter, from re- (see re-) + visiter "to visit" (see visit (v.)). Related: Revisited; revisiting.

Wiktionary
revisit

n. 1 an act of revisiting 2 a second visit vb. 1 to visit again 2 to reconsider or re-experience something

WordNet
revisit

v. visit again; "We revisited Rome after 25 years"

Wikipedia
Revisit

A revisit (from re- (again, anew) + visit) literally means visit again, such as:

  • Satellite revisit
  • Patient revisit to a setting of ambulatory care

Usage examples of "revisit".

Both in China and Japan the departed spirit is invested with the power of revisiting the earth, and, in a visible form, tormenting its enemies and haunting those places where the perishable part of it mourned and suffered.

Neither Pappoose nor Jessie cared to revisit the spot for some time, yet, oddly enough, both have done so more than once.

The employee discount he was offered might have afforded him the opportunity to revisit his interest in photography had he not had a secret life.

Working with what they had, Lax and Shettles assessed, visited, and in some cases revisited the witnesses whose testimony might prove most damaging.

The problem, Cutler said, was that Starr probably would have to revisit everything that Fiske had done.

Falling ill, he revisited home, and by the stainless affections, unwearied attentions, and devout routine there, was restored in soul as well as in body.

After she had several years enjoyed the admiration and affection of the Antiochians, she was taken with a desire to revisit Alexandria, and show her glory in that city in which, as a child, she had wandered in want and shame, hungry and lean as a grasshopper in the middle of a dusty road.

He even revisited Betsey Cavalierre, who had believed she would one day rise to the top of the Federal Bureau.

Motel to be followed by the numerous guests into the generous dining area where the bride cut a cake topped by a spun sugar approximation of the towering artifact beyond the glass where their romance had first been kindled amid the passions that had blazed forth here on a darker occasion as the screen revisited the floodlit melee of flying rocks and beer cans, Stars, Bars and Stripes asunder, signs and placards brandished and trampled GOD IS JUDGE aloft and IMPEACH smouldering on the judicial robes of controversy lately put to rest by the conciliatory visit of Senator wait stop it, what are you doing!

He could do that, now that both hosts had been established, and he would be able to revisit this alternate host similarly, should that become necessary.

Perhaps Proctor Lake was a breeding site, revisited year after year by hypsilophodont families.

Of course: madame always revisited the stripes of her first two lashes with her final strokes.

For this reason, Einstein revisited his equations and modified them by introducing something known as a cosmological constant, an additional term that allowed him to avoid this prediction and once again bask in the comfort of a static universe.

And if he felt himself rather a ghost revisiting glimpses of a forgotten moon, if all the odalisques were new to his vision and all the sultans strange, if never an eye that scanned his face turned back for a second look in uncertain reminiscence, he had to console him the company of a young woman whom everybody seemed to know and admire and like.

Oscar Wilde could be guilty of the primary madness of planning and committing a crime such as this, the secondary madness of revisiting the scene while it was still under the supervision of investigating officers might easily be within his compass.