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SIGHTSEE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: sightsaw    , sightseen   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Visit famous or interesting sights

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "sightsee" is one way to...):

travel to; visit (go to certain places as for sightseeing)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

sightseeing (going about to look at places of interest)

sightseer (a tourist who is visiting sights of interest)

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