Revamp

/ɹiːˈvæmp/ · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To improve, renew, renovate, or revise (something).
2. 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.

But the great man [Thomas Carlyle] has great littlenesses, the original sometimes revamps old thoughts, the strong reasoner may beg his question and build a strong hypothesis on assumed premises, and the clear writer frequently gets into the predicament which formed the countryman's definition of a metaphysical colloquy— […]

[T]hey did not revise, revamp, and reiterate the argument that I have heard so often from that side of the Chamber, and sometimes on this, that it would be very wicked and wrong and unpatriotic for this Republic to compel by force, against the will of the people, the annexation of the Philippine Islands to the United States.

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.

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 tools of government which we had in 1933 are outmoded. We have had to forge new tools for a new role of government in democracy—a role of new responsibility for new needs and increased responsibility for old needs, long neglected. […] Most of us recognize that none of these tools can be put to maximum effectiveness unless the executive processes of government are revamped—reorganized, if you will—into more effective combination.

There was a great demand for cars, but as the trade fell off people became more particular and it was found necessary to revamp the construction of nearly all the cars, the Buick and the Cadillac excepted, but the other three cars were in very bad condition and had to be rebuilt entirely on new lines.

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.

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• revamps
• revamping
• revamped

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