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

1 April 2025

ANYMORE

(adverb) at the present or from now on; usually used with a negative; “Alice doesn’t live here anymore”; “the children promised not to quarrel any more”


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According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.

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