Synonyms of the word

visit

• v. (transitive) Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally…
• v. (transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
• v. (transitive) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.
• v. (transitive) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below…
• v. (transitive) To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.
• n. A single act of visiting.
• n. (medicine, insurance) A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.

abide

• v. Accept, comply or act in accordance.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To wait in expectation.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To pause; to delay.
• v. (intransitive) To stay; to continue in a place; to remain stable or fixed in some state or condition;…
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To have one's abode; to dwell; to reside; to sojourn.
• v. (intransitive) To endure; to remain; to last.
• v. (transitive) To stand ready for; to await for someone; watch for.
• v. (transitive) To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To endure or undergo a hard trial or a task; to stand up under.
• v. (transitive) To await submissively; accept without question; submit to.
• v. (transitive) To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand.
• v. (transitive) To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for.
• v. A component in at least one phrasal verb: abide by.

afflict

• v. (transitive) To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
• v. (obsolete) To strike or cast down; to overthrow.
• v. (obsolete) To make low or humble.

bide

• v. (transitive, chiefly dialectal) To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
• v. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
• v. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To wait for; to await.

call

• n. A telephone conversation.
• n. A short visit, usually for social purposes.
• n. (nautical) A visit by a ship or boat to a port.
• n. A cry or shout.
• n. A decision or judgement.
• n. The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.
• n. A beckoning or summoning.
• n. The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event; the floor.
• n. (finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.
• n. (cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.
• n. (cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.).
• n. A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).
• n. (computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
• n. A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
• n. (poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.
• n. A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.
• n. (nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.
• n. A pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.
• n. An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.
• n. (archaic) Vocation; employment; calling.
• n. (US, law) A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description…
• v. (heading) To use one's voice.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To visit.
• v. (heading) To name, identify or describe.
• v. (heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.
• v. (transitive, sometimes with for) To require, demand.
• v. (transitive, finance) To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.
• v. (transitive, banking) To demand repayment of a loan.
• v. (transitive, computing) To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to…

chaffer

• v. (intransitive) To haggle or barter.
• v. To talk much and idly; to chatter.
• n. bargaining; merchandise.
• n. (agriculture) The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed.

chat

• v. To be engaged in informal conversation.
• v. To talk more than a few words.
• v. (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
• v. To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face…
• n. (uncountable) Informal conversation.
• n. A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations.
• n. (totum pro parte, always with definite article, video games) The entirety of users in a chatroom or a…
• n. An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face…
• n. Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae…
• n. Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
• n. A small potato, such as is given to swine.
• n. (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, WWI military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
• n. Alternative form of chaat.

chatter

• n. Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.
• n. The sound of talking.
• n. The sound made by a magpie.
• n. An intermittent noise, as from vibration.
• n. In national security, the degree of communication between suspect groups and individuals, used to gauge…
• v. (intransitive) To talk idly.
• v. (intransitive) Of teeth, machinery, etc, to make a noise by rapid collisions.
• v. To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
• n. one who chats.
• n. (Internet) a user of chat rooms.

chitchat

• n. Alternative spelling of chit-chat.
• v. Alternative spelling of chit-chat.

claver

• n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chatter.
• v. to gossip or chit-chat.
• n. Alternative form of clover.

communicate

• v. To impart.
• v. To share.

confab

• v. To speak casually with; to chat.
• n. A casual talk or chat.

confabulate

• v. (intransitive) To speak casually with; to chat.
• v. (intransitive) To confer.
• v. (intransitive, transitive, psychology) To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory.

converse

• v. (formal, intransitive) To talk; to engage in conversation.
• v. To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; followed by with.
• v. (obsolete) To have knowledge of (a thing), from long intercourse or study.
• n. (now literary) Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
• adj. Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.
• n. The opposite or reverse.
• n. (logic) Of a proposition or theorem of the form: given that "If A is true, then B is true", then "If B…
• n. (semantics) One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse…

discourse

• n. (uncountable, archaic) Verbal exchange, conversation.
• n. (uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.
• n. (countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
• n. (countable) Any rational expression, reason.
• n. (social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can…
• n. (obsolete) Dealing; transaction.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
• v. (intransitive) To write or speak formally and at length.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To debate.
• v. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To produce or emit (musical sounds).

gossip

• n. Someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business.
• n. Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.
• n. A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.
• n. (obsolete) A sponsor; a godfather or godmother.
• v. To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.
• v. To talk idly.

impose

• v. (transitive) To establish or apply by authority.
• v. (intransitive) to be an inconvenience.
• v. to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way.
• v. To practice a trick or deception.
• v. To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
• v. To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns…

inflict

• v. To thrust upon; to impose.

inspect

• v. To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.
• v. To view and examine officially.

intercommunicate

• v. To communicate, one with another.
• v. To be interconnected.

jaunt

• n. (archaic) A wearisome journey.
• n. A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey.
• v. (intransitive) To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.
• v. (intransitive) To ride on a jaunting car.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To jolt; to jounce.

jaw

• n. One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
• n. The part of the face below the mouth.
• n. (figuratively) Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth…
• n. A notch or opening.
• n. A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place.
• n. One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing…
• n. (nautical) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
• n. (slang, dated) Impudent or abusive talk.
• n. (slang) Axle guard.
• n. (snooker) The curved part of the cushion marking the entry to the pocket.
• v. (transitive) To assail or abuse by scolding.
• v. (intransitive) To scold; to clamor.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To talk; to converse.
• v. (snooker, transitive, intransitive) (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.
• adj. (used in certain set phrases like jaw harp, jaw harpist and jaw's-trump).

meet

• v. (heading) Of individuals: to make personal contact.
• v. (heading) Of groups: to gather or oppose.
• v. (heading) To make physical or perceptual contact.
• v. To satisfy; to comply with.
• v. To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
• n. A sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.
• n. A gathering of riders, their horses and hounds for the purpose of foxhunting.
• n. (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. A meeting.
• n. (algebra) The greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the…
• n. (Ireland) An act of French kissing someone.
• adj. (archaic) Suitable; right; proper.

meeting

• v. present participle of meet.
• n. (uncountable) The action of the verb to meet.
• n. A gathering of people/parties for a purpose.
• n. The people at such a gathering, as a collective.
• n. An encounter between people, even accidental.
• n. A place or instance of junction or intersection.
• n. (rural US, dated) A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
• n. (Quakerism) An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

natter

• v. (colloquial) To talk casually; to discuss unimportant matters.
• v. (Scotland) To nag.
• n. (colloquial) Mindless and irrelevant chatter.

see

• v. (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
• v. To form a mental picture of.
• v. (social) To meet, to visit.
• v. (by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
• v. (gambling) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
• v. (sometimes mystical) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
• v. To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
• v. (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
• v. (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
• n. A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
• n. The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric.
• n. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

smite

• v. (archaic) To hit, to strike.
• v. To strike down or kill with godly force.
• v. To injure with divine power.
• v. To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
• v. To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
• v. (figuratively, now only in passive) To strike with love or infatuation.

sojourn

• n. A short stay somewhere.
• n. A temporary residence.
• v. (intransitive) To reside somewhere temporarily, especially as a guest or lodger.

stay

• v. (transitive) To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
• v. (transitive) To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
• v. (transitive) To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
• v. (transitive) To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
• v. (transitive) To hold the attention of.
• v. (transitive) To bear up under; to endure; to hold out against; to resist.
• v. (transitive) To wait for; await.
• v. (intransitive) To rest; depend; rely.
• v. (intransitive) To stop; come to a stand or standstill.
• v. (intransitive) To come to an end; cease.
• v. (intransitive) To dwell; linger; tarry; wait.
• v. (intransitive) To make a stand; stand.
• v. (intransitive) To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end.
• v. (intransitive) To remain in a particular place, especially for an indefinite time; sojourn; abide.
• v. (intransitive) To wait; rest in patience or expectation.
• v. (intransitive, used with on or upon) To wait as an attendant; give ceremonious or submissive attendance.
• v. (intransitive) To continue to have a particular quality.
• v. To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
• v. (obsolete) To remain for the purpose of; to wait for.
• v. To cause to cease; to put an end to.
• v. To fasten or secure with stays.
• n. A prop; a support.
• n. (archaic) A fastening for a garment; a hook; a clasp; anything to hang another thing on.
• n. That which holds or restrains; obstacle; check; hindrance; restraint.
• n. A stop; a halt; a break or cessation of action, motion, or progress.
• n. (archaic) A standstill; a state of rest; entire cessation of motion or progress.
• n. A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
• n. A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
• n. Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time; sojourn.
• n. (nautical) A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
• n. Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
• n. A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
• n. (obsolete) Hindrance; let; check.
• n. (nautical) A strong rope supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other…
• n. A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole,…
• n. (chain-cable) The transverse piece in a link.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To tack; put on the other tack.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Steep; ascending.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) (of a roof) Steeply pitched.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.
• adv. (Britain dialectal) Steeply.

tour

• n. A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
• n. A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
• n. A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
• n. (sports, chiefly cricket and rugby) A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
• n. (military) A tour of duty.
• n. (graph theory) A closed trail.
• n. (obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
• n. (obsolete) A turn; a revolution.
• v. (intransitive) To make a journey.
• v. (transitive) To make a circuit of a place.
• n. (dated) A tower.
• v. To toot a horn.

travel

• v. (intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place…
• v. (intransitive) To pass from here to there; to move or transmit; to go from one place to another.
• v. (intransitive, basketball) To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.
• v. (transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
• v. (transitive) To force to journey.
• v. (obsolete) To labour; to travail.
• n. The act of traveling.
• n. pl A series of journeys.
• n. pl An account of one's travels.
• n. The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.
• n. The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
• n. (obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

trip

• n. A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
• n. A stumble or misstep.
• n. (figuratively) An error; a failure; a mistake.
• n. A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
• n. A faux pas, a social error.
• n. Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
• n. (engineering) A mechanical cutout device.
• n. (electricity) A trip-switch or cut-out.
• n. A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
• n. (obsolete) A small piece; a morsel; a bit.
• n. The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
• n. (nautical) A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, Scotland, dialect) A herd or flock of sheep, goats, etc.
• n. (obsolete) A troop of men; a host.
• n. A flock of wigeons.
• v. (intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot.
• v. (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble.
• v. (intransitive) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety,…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To detect in a misstep; to catch; to convict.
• v. (transitive) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
• v. (intransitive) To be activated, as by a signal or an event.
• v. (intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
• v. (intransitive) To journey, to make a trip.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip.
• v. (nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
• v. (nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
• adj. (poker slang) Of or relating to trips.