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" |
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