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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (3)

1. restore to a previous or better condition;
- Example: "They renovated the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel"
[syn: renovate, restitute]

2. make brighter and prettier;
- Example: "we refurbished the guest wing"
- Example: "My wife wants us to renovate"
[syn: refurbish, renovate, freshen up]

3. give new life or energy to;
- Example: "A hot soup will revive me"
- Example: "This will renovate my spirits"
- Example: "This treatment repaired my health"
[syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Renovate \Ren"o*vate\ (r?n"?-v?t), v. t. [L. renovatus, p. p. of
   renovare;pref. re- re- + novare to make new, fr. novus new.
   See New, and ?? Renew.]
   To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to
   renew.
   [1913 Webster]

         All nature feels the reniovating force
         Of winter.                               --Thomson.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

renovate
    v 1: restore to a previous or better condition; "They renovated
         the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel" [syn: renovate,
         restitute]
    2: make brighter and prettier; "we refurbished the guest wing";
       "My wife wants us to renovate" [syn: refurbish, renovate,
       freshen up]
    3: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me";
       "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my
       health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive,
       renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

95 Moby Thesaurus words for "renovate":
   brighten up, brush up, clean, cleanse, coin, copy, do over, do up,
   duplicate, face-lift, fix, fix up, freshen, furbish, furbish up,
   get back, inaugurate, innovate, invent, make over, mint, modernize,
   neologize, neoterize, overhaul, patch up, polish, polish up,
   ransom, re-create, re-form, reactivate, rebuild, recapture,
   reclaim, recondition, reconstitute, reconstruct, recoup, recover,
   recuperate, redecorate, redeem, redesign, redo, reestablish,
   refashion, refit, refound, refresh, refurbish, regain, regenerate,
   rehabilitate, reinstitute, reissue, rejuvenate, rekindle, remake,
   remodel, renew, reoccupy, reorganize, repair, repeat, replevin,
   replevy, repossess, reprint, reproduce, reshape, restore,
   restructure, resume, resurrect, resuscitate, retake, retouch,
   retrieve, revamp, revindicate, revise, revitalize, revive,
   revivify, rub up, shine, spruce, spruce up, take back, tone up,
   touch up, update, vamp, vamp up