Revamp

Quick meaning: Revamp is a verb meaning (transitive) To improve, renew, renovate, or revise (something).

Meaning

(transitive) To improve, renew, renovate, or revise (something).

More Meanings

1. An act of improving, renewing, renovating, or revising something; an improvement, renovation, revamping, or revision.

Example Sentences

They plan to revamp the historical theater in the old downtown.

When we learned that the O.E.D. Online was revamped late last year, we jumped at the chance to learn more about how this esteemed publication (which first stirred to life in 1857) was adapting itself for a modern online audience.

He went back to his play like an opium-smoker back to his drug. He revised and re-arranged and revamped. He closed his eyes, valiantly, and cut away whole act-ends, at one grim stroke, like a surgeon operating on his own flesh and blood.

The audience snickered, and Nan saw the startled flash of pain in his sunken eyes. His long fingers closed convulsively as he nerved himself to face them, and then, with a gulp of nervousness he began his monologue of ancient conundrums and jokes, not too skilfully revamped.

Word Forms

• revamps
• revamping
• revamped

Synonyms for revamp

Depending on context, synonyms include improve, newvamp, overhaul, recoct, refurbish, ameliorate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vamp, overhaul, renovation, refurbishment, redevelop, renovate.

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