renovate

Verb

Meaning

To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

quicken repair revive recreate animate refurbish revivify vivify freshen up restitute reanimate convert change cobble improve
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Antonyms

mar blight cripple damage break block
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Hypernyms

stimulate renew regenerate brace arouse energize

Hyponyms

gentrify

Anagrams

overneat

Examples

One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away. Candice Olson

If you look at the statistics, people spend most of their time in the kitchen. Aside from the backyard, it's one of my favorite places to renovate. Vanilla Ice

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence. The point where to rest being known, the object of pursuit is then determined; and, that being determined, a calm unperturbedness may be attained to. Confucius

It is time to renovate and reoccupy our own tradition. Dana Gioia

I find myself for whatever reason unable to live in the apartment I renovate and have to sell. Moby

We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Close letter words and terms

renourishment Renouvierian renovascular renovated butter renovater renovatingly