visiting

Verb

visit (third-person singular simple present visits, present participle visiting, simple past and past participle visited)

1. (transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
2. (intransitive, transitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
   • She decided to visit her grandparents for Christmas.

   Synonyms:

   call on

3. (transitive) Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
   • [God] hath visited and redeemed his people.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:68
4. (archaic, transitive) To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).
   • Her life was spared by the clemency of the emperor, but he visited the pomp and treasures of her palace.1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 68
5. (transitive) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
   • There used to be a sharp contest as to where the effigy was to be made, for the people thought that the house from which it was carried forth would not be visited with death that year.1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough
6. (transitive) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.
   • 05-032 was right about one thing: there is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to visit utter annihilation on it.2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Six (Legendary)

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