renovate

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verb

1. restore to a previous or better condition
- They renovated the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
• Syn:
restitute
• Derivationally related forms:
restitution (for: restitute), renovation, renovator
• Hypernyms:
regenerate, renew
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. make brighter and prettier
- we refurbished the guest wing
- My wife wants us to renovate
• Syn:
refurbish, freshen up
• Derivationally related forms:
renovation, refurbishment (for: refurbish)
• Hypernyms:
regenerate, renew
• Hyponyms:
gentrify
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s
3. give new life or energy to
- A hot soup will revive me
- This will renovate my spirits
- This treatment repaired my health
• Syn:
animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, repair,
quicken, vivify, revivify
• Derivationally related forms:
revivification (for: revivify), vivification (for: vivify), quickener (for: quicken), recreation (for: recreate)
• Hypernyms:
stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk up
• Verb Group:
come to, revive, resuscitate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify, refurbish, freshen up, restitute