Word Study
revamp
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb revamp has 2 senses
- revamp(v = verb.change) Array - to patch up or renovate; repair or restore; "They revamped their old house before selling it" is one way to regenerate, renew
- revamp(v = verb.change) vamp - provide (a shoe) with a new vamp; "revamp my old boots" is one way to bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
revamp, v.tr.
1 renovate, revise, improve.
2 patch up.
1 renovate, revise, improve.
2 patch up.
Etymology
RE- + VAMP(1)
THESAURUS
revamp
accommodate, adapt, adjust, alter, ameliorate, amend, better, blue-pencil, break up, change, convert, correct, deform, denature, diversify, do up, edit, emend, emendate, face-lift, fit, fix, fix up, furbish, improve, meliorate, mitigate, modify, modulate, mutate, overhaul, overthrow, patch, qualify, re-create, realign, rebuild, recense, recondition, reconstruct, rectify, redact, redesign, redo, redraft, refit, reform, refresh, refurbish, rehabilitate, remake, renew, renovate, repair, reshape, restore, restructure, revise, revive, rework, rewrite, ring the changes, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, subvert, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, vamp, vary, work a change, work over, worsen
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