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paid a visit

paid a visit is the simple past and past participle of pay a visit.

Meaning of pay a visit

Verb

pay a visit (third-person singular simple present pays a visit, present participle paying a visit, simple past and past participle paid a visit)

  1. (idiomatic) To visit.
    • In the succeeding years I paid many more visits to Scotland; this was made easy even for those of modest means, by that wonderful institution, the "Inverness Tourist." For £3 one could get a ticket from London to Inverness and back with a wide choice of routes, […].1957 July, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 496
  2. (euphemistic, idiomatic) To go to the toilet.

Questions about paid a visit

What is paid a visit the simple past and past participle of?
Paid a visit is the simple past and past participle of pay a visit.

Words near paid a visit in the dictionary

  1. paiches
  2. Paichuan
  3. paick
  4. paicks
  5. paid
  6. paid a visit
  7. paid attention
  8. paid back
  9. paid back in someone's own coin
  10. paid dearly
  11. paid dividends

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