revamp

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Nintendo's handheld is consistently a big seller in the NPDs, so it's no surprise that the revamp is already seeing plenty of success overseas.

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  1. transitive verb To patch up or restore; renovate.
  2. transitive verb To revise or reconstruct (a manuscript, for example).
  3. transitive verb To vamp (a shoe) anew.

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  • This in all probability was her last meeting with the party functionaries before the organisational revamp which is likely to take place around January 15. —  The Times of India
  • Nintendo's handheld is consistently a big seller in the NPDs, so it's no surprise that the revamp is already seeing plenty of success overseas. —  1UP RSS feed
  • "The funding formula needs a huge revamp, and the province has been reluctant to do that," said Seven Oaks school board chairwoman Claudia Sarbit.
  • While Capcom could have gone the quick and dirty route with a facile visual revamp, theyve included two versions of the game in Rockman - a full blown Rockman remake with new game features as well as a version of the updated Rockman that plays true to the original game. —  Fulldls.com
  • His budget is the first step in a long-term revamp of everything from how the Pentagon bureaucracy responds to the needs of deployed forces to the kinds of missions that the military trains and equips for. —  Top Stories - Google News
 

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/rəˈvæmp/
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