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pay a visit

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pay (someone or something) a visit and pay a visit to someone or something
to visit someone or something. Bill paid a visit to his aunt in Seattle. Please pay a visit to our house whenever you are in town.
See also: pay, visit
pay (somebody/something) a visit (slightly formal) also pay a visit (to somebody/something)
to go to see someone or something Yesterday a police detective paid us a visit and asked a lot of questions. The three elderly women decided to pay a visit to a spa and had a great time.
Related vocabulary: pay a call on somebody/something
See also: pay, visit
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Bonacieux; that he had never spoken to the one or the other; that he had come, at about ten o'clock in the evening, to pay a visit to his friend M.
The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
This is our plan: We'll come once in a while, as in the past, to pay a visit to this henhouse, and we'll take away eight chickens.
The Adventures Of Pinocchio by Collodi, Carlo View in context
As he did not, however, outwardly express any such disgust, it would be an ill office in us to pay a visit to the inmost recesses of his mind, as some scandalous people search into the most secret affairs of their friends, and often pry into their closets and cupboards, only to discover their poverty and meanness to the world.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
 
 
 
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