Other forms: revisited, revisiting, revisits
To revisit is to go back to a place or an idea. Revisit the site, revisit the decision, worth revisiting.
The literal sense is straightforward. The figurative one is much commoner in working life and is often a polite way of reopening something that was supposed to be settled: let us revisit that. Revisiting a decision implies new information rather than a change of mind, which is why the word is useful for saving face. Note that revisit is re- plus visit, from the Latin for going to see.
1verbrevisitTo go back to a place.
“Years later, she revisited the village where she grew up.”
2verbreconsiderTo reconsider a decision or idea.
“The council agreed to revisit its decision to close the library.”
revisit is a going back.
Latin revisitare is re- plus visitare, to go to see, from videre, to see. Vision, visit and evident come from the same seeing.
Latin
revīsitāre
Middle French
revisiter
Middle English
revisite
English, today
revisit
From Middle English revisite, from Middle French revisiter and Latin revīsitāre. by surface analysis, re- + visit.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA