Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To restore to an earlier condition, as by repairing or remodeling.
- transitive verb To impart new vigor to; revive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To renew; render as good as new; restore to freshness or to a good condition: as, to
renovate a building. - To give force or effect to anew; renew in effect.
- To revive; recover.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
renew ; torevamp something to make it looknew again. - verb To to
restore to freshness or vigor. - verb this sense?) To tear down and
rebuild .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb give new life or energy to
- verb make brighter and prettier
- verb restore to a previous or better condition
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Having your parents drive through your living room so you can renovate is just bloody brilliant!
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Jim and the other young man took a job on their own, helping Alex Ghiselin renovate a house.
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I remember what happened a few years ago when Archsodomite Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee decided to "renovate" his cathedral, tearing apart a beautiful reredos and replacing it with a grand new pipe organ !
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They hope, primarily, to use it to protect the front lip of terraces (of which there are vast numbers), but they see it also as a possible way to stabilize roadsides and to protect (even "renovate") landslide areas.
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7 Office Design Ideas - From the home office to the enterprise, our environment affects the way we work - Office Design Gallery With the idea of renovate our office and more interaction area, I visited the Microsoft R&D Center in Grand Gateway, where my good friend Eric and Helen work.
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7 Office Design Ideas - From the home office to the enterprise, our environment affects the way we work - Office Design Gallery With the idea of renovate our office and more interaction area, I visited the Microsoft R&D Center in Grand Gateway, where my good friend Eric and Helen work.
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AEG offered two plans: "renovate" and "innovate," focused on revenue-generating options such as new seating and amenities.
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In the spring of 2006, the Wisconsin Union Directorate placed a referendum on the Associated Students of Madison ballot that gave the students the power to vote on whether to increase their segregated fees by up to $96 a semester for the next 30 years to fund the construction of a new union in place of Union South and "renovate" the Memorial Union.
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They closed it because it would cost too much to "renovate".
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Tehran authorities want to "renovate" the neighborhood by removing historic synagogues.
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