VISITS Synonyms: 116 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of visit

as in sees

to make a social call upon the club ladies make a point of visiting everyone who moves into the neighborhood

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as in stays

to reside as a temporary guest an old friend who comes to visit for a month every summer

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as in chats

to engage in casual or rambling conversation tries to visit with her best friend on the phone at least once a week

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as in haunts

to go to or spend time in often visit Ireland for a few weeks every year

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as in calls

to make a brief visit stopped to visit with my father on the way out of town

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visits

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noun

plural of visit

as in sojourns

a temporary residing as another's guest my aunt always looks forward to her weeklong annual visit with her mother

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as in visitations

a coming to see another briefly for social or business reasons came by for a quick visit

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Chang's 77-year-old mother, Lien, receives SNAP aid, too, and visits two food banks each week. — Arkansas Online, 26 July 2026 Chang's 77-year-old mother, Lien, receives SNAP aid, too, and visits two different food banks each week. — ABC News, 25 July 2026 Chang’s 77-year-old mother, Lien, receives SNAP aid, too, and visits two food banks each week. — Dee-Ann Durbin, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026 The family routinely visits the site, a tradition that’s often the cause of emotional outbursts. — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 24 July 2026 Again, this gap is not hospitals’ fault but the system that makes hospital stays, surgeries and emergency room visits out of reach for many Americans with limited incomes even with insurance. — Eric Khant, Sun Sentinel, 19 July 2026 In the final months of Odysseus’ voyage, his son Telemachus leaves Ithaca and visits the ancient Greek city of Sparta in search of news from his former comrade Menelaus. — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026 In the upcoming episode, airing on TLC Tuesday, July 21, Dupree-Dooley visits Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, with her then-fiancé, Colin Dooley. — Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 17 July 2026 In summer, the yacht heads to the Mediterranean, where Sea Cloud II visits the coasts of Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, and Spain. — Jane Wooldridge, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2026

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And the burritos at Mean Bean were satisfying enough to warrant multiple visits. — Tom Campbell, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026 Branch library program attendance rose 10% in fiscal 2026 compared with the previous year, while attendance at research libraries increased 6%; overall visits climbed 2% and 4%, respectively, across all ages according to data provided by NYPL. — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2026 Safely removing a bat from your home protects both you and the bat while preventing future unwanted visits. — Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 1 Aug. 2026 As in visits to the NBA Finals in each of those four seasons, with Heat championships in 2012 and ’13. — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2026 While the family spends part of every summer at Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire, those visits had previously been strictly private. — Diego Parrado, Vanity Fair, 1 Aug. 2026 In that future, prevention is continuous, clinicians are supported with timely, future-facing insight, patients remain engaged between visits, and care is delivered early enough to meaningfully improve healthspan at population scale. — Guy Leitersdorf, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 According to the Mayo Clinic, back pain is a leading cause of doctor visits and missing work. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 31 July 2026 Many other young people have a less immersive artistic education, perhaps shaped by occasional school trips or family visits to museums. — Mureji Fatunde-Iloeje, ArsTechnica, 25 July 2026

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Like Diebolt, Rosenman sees a dynamic more complicated than where a Democrat falls on the ideological spectrum.

— Sam Gringlas, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026
On the contrary, Oxford Economics sees job growth staying slightly positive on the back of industries like healthcare that are more immune to the business cycle.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2026

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There are a few different options for how fast the gimbal moves, and for locking the roll and tilt axes (so the picture stays level even if the handle isn’t).

— Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 30 July 2026
Notably, that recognition from the top is the component most often missing; acknowledgment tends to come from direct supervisors and peers, while the executive level stays silent.

— Mena Mirhom, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of stays

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The Blumhouse production sees Chastain portray Ursula, a wife and mother, as well as a supernatural entity that haunts her family’s home.

— Hannah Malach, InStyle, 21 July 2026
One of the biggest lessons that haunts the Intelligence Community to this day dates to a reliance on raw reports leading up to the invasion of Iraq.

— Philip Elliott, Time, 17 July 2026

Definition of haunts

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His Instagram page is packed with stunning photos from the actor’s sojourns, including Stonehenge, Gettysburg, South Africa, Egypt, and Poland.

— Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 15 July 2026
As shoppers gear up for their European summer sojourns, brands are beating the tourist rush and setting up shop across the continent with temporary seasonal stores, beach club pop-ups and limited-time activations to capture the attention and dollars of the high-spending set.

— Madeleine Schulz, Vogue, 8 June 2026

Definition of sojourns

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Nearly 1,500 families were served by more than 8,000 home visitations that support early literacy through language development and age-appropriate books and toys.

— Read Alliance, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
The aliens’ ability to take on the forms of stags, foxes and cardinals is also in line with what experiencers have reported about their visitations.

— Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 13 June 2026

Definition of visitations

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Despite that, when Bezos talks, a lot of people pay attention.

— Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 27 July 2026
Each week Bloomberg's award-winning reporter Akshat Rathi talks to the people tackling climate change — venture capitalists, scientists, politicians who have created climate laws, and CEOs who have transformed their businesses.

— Anjali Chaudhry, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

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