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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | start over |
| Synonyms: | do over again, redecorate, redesign, remake, remodel, renovate, repeat, rethink, revamp, revise |
| Main Entry: | disguise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mask; misrepresent |
| Synonyms: | affect, age, alter, antique, assume, beard, belie, camouflage, change, cloak, color, conceal, counterfeit, cover, cover up, deceive, dissemble, dissimulate, doctor up, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, front, fudge, garble, gloss over, hide, make like, make up, masquerade, muffle, obfuscate, obscure, pretend, put on a false front, put on a front, put on an act, put up a front, redo, screen, secrete, sham, shroud, simulate, touch up, varnish, veil, wear cheaters, whitewash |
| Antonyms: | expose, open, represent, reveal, uncover, unmask |
| Main Entry: | duplicate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a copy; repeat |
| Synonyms: | Xerox, act like, clone, copy, counterfeit, ditto*, do a takeoff, do again, do like, double, dualize, dupe, echo, fake, go like, imitate, knock off, make like, make replica, make twofold, manifold, mimeo, mirror, multiply, phony, photocopy, photostat, pirate*, redo, redouble, reduplicate, remake, replicate, repro, reproduce, rework, stat, take off as, trace |
| Notes: | duplication may be regarded as an activity because one duplicates (makes again) something, but replication is a process in which something is replicated (copied) |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | modify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | alter, change |
| Synonyms: | adapt, adjust, become, convert, correct, customize, doctor, mutate, recast, redo, refashion, reform, remodel, reorganize, repair, reshape, revise, rework, shift gears, switch over, transfigure, transform, transmogrify, transmute, turn, turn one around, turn over new leaf, turn the corner, turn the tables, tweak*, vary |
| Antonyms: | leave alone, stagnate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | refurbish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | spruce up |
| Synonyms: | clean up, do up, fix up, gussy up, mend, modernize, overhaul, recondition, redo, reequip, refit, refresh, rehab, rehabilitate, rejuvenate, remodel, renew, renovate, repair, restore, retread, revamp, set to rights, spruce, update |
| Notes: | refurbish means to 'clean up again,' refurnish means 'to provide with new furnishings,' redecorate means 'to add new decoration(s),' and renovate means 'renew or restore to as as-new condition' |
| Antonyms: | destroy, ruin |
| Main Entry: | repeat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | duplicate, do again |
| Synonyms: | chime, come again, din, ditto*, drum into, echo, go over again, hold over, imitate, ingeminate, iterate, make like, occur again, play back, play over, quote, read back, reappear, recapitulate, recast, reciprocate, recite, reconstruct, recrudesce, recur, redo, refashion, reform, rehash, rehearse, reissue, reiterate, relate, remake, renew, reoccur, replay, reprise, reproduce, rerun, resay, reshow, restate, retell, return, revert, revolve, rework, run over, sing same old song |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reproduce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make more copies of |
| Synonyms: | Xerox, carbon, clone, copy, do again, dupe*, duplicate, echo, emulate, engross, follow, imitate, knock off, manifold, match, mimeo, mimeograph, mirror, parallel, photocopy, photograph, photostat, pirate, portray, print, reawaken, recount, recreate, redo, reduplicate, reenact, reflect, relive, remake, repeat, replicate, represent, reprint, restamp, revive, stereotype, transcribe, type |
| Antonyms: | abort, destroy, stop |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | revise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | correct, edit |
| Synonyms: | alter, amend, blue-pencil, change, clean up, compare, cut, debug, develop, emend, go over, improve, launder, look over, modify, overhaul, perfect, polish, recalibrate, recast, reconsider, redo, redraft, redraw, reexamine, rehash, reorganize, restyle, revamp, review, rework, rewrite, run through, scan, scrub, scrutinize, study, tighten, update, upgrade |
| Main Entry: | redecorate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | refurbish |
| Synonyms: | fix up, paint, rearrange, recondition, redo, refinish, refresh, refurnish, remodel, renew, renovate, restore, revamp |
| Notes: | refurbish means to 'clean up again,' refurnish means 'to provide with new furnishings,' redecorate means 'to add new decoration(s),' and renovate means 'renew or restore to as as-new condition' |
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