RENOVATE

animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify

(verb) give new life or energy to; “A hot soup will revive me”; “This will renovate my spirits”; “This treatment repaired my health”

refurbish, renovate, freshen up

(verb) make brighter and prettier; “we refurbished the guest wing”; “My wife wants us to renovate”

renovate, restitute

(verb) restore to a previous or better condition; “They renovated the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

renovate (third-person singular simple present renovates, present participle renovating, simple past and past participle renovated)

(transitive) To renew; to revamp something to make it look new again.

(transitive) To restore to freshness or vigor.

Synonyms

• See also repair

Anagrams

• overneat

Source: Wiktionary


Ren"o*vate (rn"-vt), v. t. Etym: [L. renovatus, p. p. of renovare;pref. re- re- + novare to make new, fr. novus new. See New, and Renew.]

Definition: To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew. All nature feels the reniovating force Of winter. Thomson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

6 June 2025

PUNGENCY

(noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality; “he commented with typical pungency”; “the bite of satire”


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Coffee Trivia

Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.

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