| renewal | | |
| n. (act) | 1. reclamation, rehabilitation, renewal | the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation. |
| ~ restoration | the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state. |
| ~ re-afforestation, reforestation | the restoration (replanting) of a forest that had been reduced by fire or cutting. |
| ~ urban renewal | the clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slums. |
| n. (act) | 2. renewal | the act of renewing. |
| ~ repeating, repetition | the act of doing or performing again. |
| ~ self-renewal | the act of renewing yourself (or itself). |
| n. (process) | 3. refilling, renewal, replacement, replenishment | filling again by supplying what has been used up. |
| ~ filling | flow into something (as a container). |
| renew | | |
| v. (creation) | 1. regenerate, renew | reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new.; "We renewed our friendship after a hiatus of twenty years"; "They renewed their membership" |
| ~ replace | substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected).; "He replaced the old razor blade"; "We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago"; "the insurance will replace the lost income"; "This antique vase can never be replaced" |
| ~ freshen up, refurbish, renovate | make brighter and prettier.; "we refurbished the guest wing"; "My wife wants us to renovate" |
| ~ revamp | to patch up or renovate; repair or restore.; "They revamped their old house before selling it" |
| ~ remould, retread, remold | give new treads to (a tire). |
| ~ renovate, restitute | restore to a previous or better condition.; "They renovated the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel" |
| ~ freshen, refresh | make (to feel) fresh.; "The cool water refreshed us" |
| ~ revitalise, revitalize | give new life or vigor to. |
| ~ restore, regenerate, rejuvenate | return to life; get or give new life or energy.; "The week at the spa restored me" |
| ~ modernize, modernise, overhaul | make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to.; "You should overhaul your car engine"; "overhaul the health care system" |
| ~ re-create | create anew.; "Re-create the boom of the West on a small scale" |
| ~ restore, reconstruct | return to its original or usable and functioning condition.; "restore the forest to its original pristine condition" |
| v. (change) | 2. reincarnate, renew | cause to appear in a new form.; "the old product was reincarnated to appeal to a younger market" |
| ~ restore, regenerate, rejuvenate | return to life; get or give new life or energy.; "The week at the spa restored me" |
| renovate | | |
| v. (change) | 1. renovate, restitute | restore to a previous or better condition.; "They renovated the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel" |
| ~ regenerate, renew | reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new.; "We renewed our friendship after a hiatus of twenty years"; "They renewed their membership" |
| v. (change) | 2. freshen up, refurbish, renovate | make brighter and prettier.; "we refurbished the guest wing"; "My wife wants us to renovate" |
| ~ gentrify | renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations.; "gentrify a row of old houses"; "gentrify the old center of town" |
| ~ regenerate, renew | reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new.; "We renewed our friendship after a hiatus of twenty years"; "They renewed their membership" |
| v. (body) | 3. animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify | give new life or energy to.; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" |
| ~ energize, energise, perk up, arouse, brace, stimulate | cause to be alert and energetic.; "Coffee and tea stimulate me"; "This herbal infusion doesn't stimulate" |
| ~ resuscitate, come to, revive | return to consciousness.; "The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection" |
| vary | | |
| v. (change) | 1. alter, change, vary | become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence.; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season" |
| ~ alternate, jump | go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions. |
| ~ crackle | to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks.; "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand" |
| ~ modulate | vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves). |
| ~ avianise, avianize | to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo. |
| ~ move | go or proceed from one point to another.; "the debate moved from family values to the economy" |
| ~ adapt, accommodate | make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country" |
| ~ widen, let out | make (clothes) larger.; "Let out that dress--I gained a lot of weight" |
| ~ take in | make (clothes) smaller.; "Please take in this skirt--I've lost weight" |
| ~ branch out, broaden, diversify | vary in order to spread risk or to expand.; "The company diversified" |
| ~ diversify, radiate | spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate.; "The plants on this island diversified" |
| ~ specialize, narrow down, narrow, specialise | become more focus on an area of activity or field of study.; "She specializes in Near Eastern history" |
| ~ honeycomb | make full of cavities, like a honeycomb. |
| ~ break | vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity.; "The flat plain was broken by tall mesas" |
| v. (stative) | 2. depart, deviate, diverge, vary | be at variance with; be out of line with. |
| ~ aberrate | diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration.; "The surfaces of the concave lens may be proportioned so as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens" |
| ~ aberrate | diverge from the expected.; "The President aberrated from being a perfect gentleman" |
| ~ belie, contradict, negate | be in contradiction with. |
| ~ differ | be different.; "These two tests differ in only one respect" |
| v. (stative) | 3. vary | be subject to change in accordance with a variable.; "Prices vary"; "His moods vary depending on the weather" |
| ~ co-vary | vary in the same time period (of two random variables). |
| ~ drift | vary or move from a fixed point or course.; "stock prices are drifting higher" |
| ~ differ | be different.; "These two tests differ in only one respect" |
| v. (change) | 4. motley, variegate, vary | make something more diverse and varied.; "Vary the menu" |
| ~ diversify | make (more) diverse.; "diversify a course of study" |
| ~ checker, chequer | variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns. |
| recent | | |
| n. (time) | 1. holocene, holocene epoch, recent, recent epoch | approximately the last 10,000 years. |
| ~ age of man, quaternary, quaternary period | last 2 million years. |
| ~ epoch | a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages. |
| adj. | 2. recent | new.; "recent graduates"; "a recent addition to the house"; "recent buds on the apple trees" |
| ~ new | not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered.; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World" |
| adj. | 3. late, recent | of the immediate past or just previous to the present time.; "a late development"; "their late quarrel"; "his recent trip to Africa"; "in recent months"; "a recent issue of the journal" |
| ~ past | earlier than the present time; no longer current.; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" |
| lately | | |
| adv. | 1. late, lately, latterly, of late, recently | in the recent past.; "he was in Paris recently"; "lately the rules have been enforced"; "as late as yesterday she was fine"; "feeling better of late"; "the spelling was first affected, but latterly the meaning also" |
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