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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