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Another word for renovate

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Verb

  1. To bring back to a previous normal condition

      1. To bring back into existence or use; reestablish:
      2. To bring back to an original or normal condition:
      3. To place in a former position or location:
      1. To bring (a person or entity) back to a former condition; restore.
      2. To repay (property or money).
      3. To make restitution.
      1. To restore to youthful vigor or appearance; make young again.
      2. To restore to an original or new condition:
      3. To stimulate (a stream) to renewed erosive activity, as by uplift of the land.
      1. To bring back into use or existence.
      2. To restore to a previous condition or position.
      1. To restore to good health or useful life, as through therapy and education:
      2. To restore to good condition:
      3. To cause to be regarded again in a positive way; reestablish esteem for:
      1. To construct again; rebuild.
      2. To assemble or build again mentally; re-create:
      3. To deduce the form and properties of (a protolanguage or an unattested word) based on evidence from attested languages, such as cognate words.
      1. To restore to good condition, especially by repairing, renovating, or rebuilding.
      1. To demand the restoration or return of (a possession, for example); claim again or back:
      2. To require or deserve again:
      3. To bring into or return to a suitable condition for use, as cultivation or habitation:
      1. To build again.
      2. To make extensive structural repairs on.
      3. To remodel or make extensive changes in:
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    help

  2. To make new or as if new again

    Idioms:
    See also:

    new

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Another word for renovate

Verb
  1. See also:

    renew

    restore

    renew

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Sentence Examples

  • To concentrate, induce and renovate are, however, but aspects of one process of acquisition by the transfusion of a transmissible energy.

  • With his own lessons and those patterns, any ruler of his day, who would listen to him, might reform and renovate his own state, and his influence would break forth beyond its limits till the face of the whole kingdom should be filled with a multitudinous relation-keeping, well-fed, happy people.

  • His views were those of a moderate reformer, who desired to renovate but not to end the institutions of the old monarchy; and his memoirs set forth in a favourable light the actions of that parlement, the existence of which was soon to be terminated amid the political storms of the close of the year 1789.

  • The reformers shook off the yoke of systems in order boldly to renovate both knowledge and faith; and, instead of resting on the abstract a priori principles within which man and nature had been imprisoned, they returned to the ancient methods of observation and analysis.

  • In fact, the department of Housing and Urban Development was created specifically to give low-income families the access to quality housing and the means to renovate the homes back to an acceptable condition.

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