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| Main Entry: |
renovate
 [ren-uh-veyt] 
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fix up, modernize |
| Synonyms: | clean, cleanse, do up, do*, face-lift, gussy up, make over, overhaul, reactivate, recondition, reconstitute, recreate, refit, reform, refresh, refurbish, rehabilitate, rekindle, remake, remodel, renew, repair, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, retread, retrieve, revamp, revitalize, revive, revivify, spruce, spruce up, 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: | demolish, destroy, ruin |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | alter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | change |
| Synonyms: | adapt, adjust, amend, change, convert, cook, correct mid-course, develop, dial back, diversify, doctor, fine tune, make different, metamorphose, modify, mutate, phony up, recalibrate, recast, reconstruct, refashion, reform, remodel, renovate, reshape, revamp, revise, shift, transform, transmute, turn, vary |
| Antonyms: | continue, fix, keep, let stand, maintain, preserve, remain, retain, sustain |
| Main Entry: | brush up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | improve condition |
| Synonyms: | clean up, cram, go over, look over, polish up, read up, refresh one's memory, refurbish, relearn, renovate, reread, retouch, review, revise, study, touch up |
| Antonyms: | forget |
Example Sentences
- Add luxury boxes if you must, but renovate the stadium so that the architecture and the quality of design are not destroyed.
- As they renovate old libraries and plan new ones, colleges consider the purpose of the buildings-and how to make them popular.
- As one observer puts it, housing is the easiest thing to renovate.
| Main Entry: | change |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become different |
| Synonyms: | accommodate, adapt, adjust, alter, alternate, commute, convert, diminish, diverge, diversify, evolve, fluctuate, make innovations, make over, merge, metamorphose, moderate, modify, modulate, mutate, naturalize, recondition, redo, reduce, reform, regenerate, remake, remodel, renovate, reorganize, replace, resolve, restyle, revolutionize, shape, shift, substitute, tamper with, temper, transfigure, transform, translate, transmute, transpose, turn, vacillate, vary, veer, warp |
| Antonyms: | continue, hold, keep, persist, remain, stay |
| Main Entry: | decorate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beautify, embellish |
| Synonyms: | add finishing touches, adorn, bedeck, bedizen, brighten, burnish, color, deck, do up, dress out, dress up, enhance, enrich, festoon, finish, fix up, frill, furbish, garnish, gild, grace, gussy up, idealize, illuminate, jazz up, ornament, paint, perfect, prank, renovate, spruce up, trim |
| Main Entry: | heal |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cure, recover |
| Synonyms: | alleviate, ameliorate, attend, bring around, compose, conciliate, convalesce, doctor, dress, fix, free, get well, harmonize, improve, knit, make healthy, make sound, make well, make whole, medicate, meliorate, mend, minister to, patch up, physic, put on feet again, reanimate, rebuild, reconcile, regenerate, rehabilitate, rejuvenate, remedy, renew, renovate, repair, restore, resuscitate, revive, revivify, salve, set, settle, soothe, treat |
| Antonyms: | harm, hurt, injure |
| Main Entry: | mend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | correct, improve, fix |
| Synonyms: | aid, ameliorate, amend, better, condition, convalesce, cure, darn, doctor, emend, fiddle with, gain, get better, get well, heal, knit, look up, overhaul, patch, perk up, ready, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, recover, rectify, recuperate, redress, refit, reform, refurbish, rejuvenate, remedy, renew, renovate, repair, restore, retouch, revamp, revise, right, service, sew |
| Antonyms: | break, destroy, hurt, ruin, weaken |
| Main Entry: | modernize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring up to date; remodel |
| Synonyms: | improve, refresh, regenerate, rejuvenate, remake, renew, renovate, restore, revamp, revive, update |
| Antonyms: | antique, date, outmode, regress, wear |
| Main Entry: | reconstruct |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reorganize, build up |
| Synonyms: | copy, deduce, do up, doctor*, fix, fix up, make over, modernize, overhaul, patch, piece together, reassemble, rebuild, recast, recondition, reconstitute, recreate, reestablish, refashion, reform, regenerate, rehabilitate, rejuvenate, remake, remodel, remold, renovate, reorient, repair, replace, reproduce, reshuffle, restore, retool, revamp, rework |
| Antonyms: | destroy, raze, ruin |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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