revisit

/'ri:'vizit/

Thân thiện

We revisited the old playground where we played as children.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To visit again: To go to see or spend time at a place, or with a person, for a second or subsequent time.
   • To consider or examine again: To return to a subject, idea, or piece of work for the purpose of re-examination, reconsideration, or revision.

Usage and Examples

• Verb (To visit a place/person again):

  • We plan to revisit the city next summer to see the new museum.
  • After graduating, she promised to revisit her favorite professor.

• Verb (To consider/examine something again):

  • The committee decided to revisit the proposal after receiving new data.
  • The author revisited the themes of his early novels in his latest work.

Advanced Usage

• "to revisit the past": To think about or discuss past events, often with nostalgia or for analysis.

  • The documentary revisits the past to understand the origins of the conflict.

• "to revisit a decision": To formally reconsider a choice that was made earlier.

  • Given the public outcry, the council was forced to revisit its decision.

Variants and Related Words

• Revisitation (noun): The act of revisiting.
  • The revisitation of these historical sites brought back many memories.

Synonyms

• Return to: To go back to a place or subject.
• Reexamine: To look at or consider something again carefully.

Different Meanings and Contexts

• Literal Meaning: Physically going back to a location (e.g., ).
• Figurative Meaning: Mentally returning to a topic, memory, or piece of work (e.g., , ).

Related Phrases

• Revisit and revise: A common pairing meaning to look at something again and make changes to it.
  • The policy is not working; we need to revisit and revise it completely.

Học thuật

Verb

1. visit again
   • We revisited Rome after 25 years