Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To patch up or restore; renovate.
- v. To revise or reconstruct (a manuscript, for example).
- v. To vamp (a shoe) anew.
- n. The act or an instance of revamping; a complete reorganization or revision.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To vamp, mend, or patch up again; rehabilitate; reconstruct.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To vamp again; hence, to patch up; to reconstruct.
WordNet 3.0
- v. provide (a shoe) with a new vamp
- v. to patch up or renovate; repair or restore
Etymologies
- From re- + vamp (in the sense of applying a vamp to). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But having broached the thorny issue of using government entities to boost housing, the Fed didn't touch on questions surrounding a needed long-term revamp of housing finance.”
The Wall Street Journal: Fed Up With the Depressed State of Housing
“Miu Miu's revamp is important to the future of Prada SpA, whic h owns shoe brands Car Shoe and Church's in addition to Miu Miu and Prada.”
“Rep. Dave Camp, the Michigan Republican who will head the Ways and Means Committee next year, said one little-noticed benefit of the bill is that it clears the decks for Congress to begin considering a much-needed long-term revamp of the entire tax code.”
“Abhishek Bachchan to star in Hindi revamp of 1969 crime caper starring Michael Caine, Benny Hill and a fleet of Mini Coopers”
“Basically, Dirk Benedict – the guy who was Starbuck, and has spent the last two decades hanging around conventions like a ghost ever since the original show got cancelled – says that the fact that Starbuck was transformed into a girl for the recent revamp is a sign of the decline of masculinity.”
“While the original adaptation of the Ira Levin novel was a straight thriller, the revamp is considered to be more of a sophisticated black comedy.”
“Setsetse said the justice department was looking at a long term revamp of the legal aid systems, including the introduction of a public defender system.”
“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.”
“I’ve mentioned that I think the revamp is a lot better and infinitely more “summer box office” film.”
“The lack of Finder revamp is what disappointed me the most about Snow Leopard; but hopefully now that it’s “totally rewritten” the stage is set for a better file browser.”
Hands On With Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Dev Preview) | Lifehacker Australia
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘revamp’.
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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Do That Again! ~~ "Re-verbs"
List of verbs that begin with re-, meaning to repeat a specific action or process - reappraise, for example.
I'm also looking for words like repeat, replenish and rescind whose roots d...repeat, rescind, reappraise, refinish, restripe, reapply, resupply, refurbish, reposition, reoffend, redistribute, recoat and 202 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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man gre
abase, abeyance, abreast, abscission, abscond, abyss, accede, accretion, acerbic, acidulous, acumen, adulterate and 481 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1824 more...
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apple article
pithy, wag, penchant, revamp, put on the stand, crony, bonanza, tertiary education, incumbent, unduly = чрезмерно, cash hoard = нали..., to be reluctant =... and 37 more...
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GCI
spinster, maiden, happy-go-lucky, homonym, ill-at-ease, saw red, out of sorts, hot under the collar, taken aback, pen-names, alias, shoelaces and 378 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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bumwank, calamity, recalcitrant, gayenese, jeeze, nonsense, flabbergasted, juxtapose, procrastinating, ossanity, biffing, loser and 1972 more... -
Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 997 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL R
rabid, raconteur, rail, rambunctious, ramification, rampant, rancor, rancorous, range, rankle, ransack, rapacious and 112 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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Valse's Words
fastidious, fervent, bellicose, personification, onomatopoeia, burly, concomitant, tempura, serendipity, pecuniary, foment, chum and 418 more...
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Manhattan Advanced 2
redound, raconteur, rarefied, recapitulate, recondite, recrudescent, refractory, refulgent, rejoinder, rend, riposte, repast and 66 more...
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