renovate

English

Verb

renovate (third-person singular simple present renovates, present participle renovating, simple past and past participle renovated)

1. To renew; to revamp something to make it look new again.
2. To tear down and rebuild.

   This house is shabby, it needs renovating.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:repair

Derived terms

• renovation

Translations

to renew; to revamp

Chinese: Mandarin: 裝修 (cmn), 装修 (cmn) (zhuāngxiū), 修復 (cmn), 修复 (cmn) (xiūfù), 翻新 (cmn) (fānxīn) Dutch: renoveren (nl) Finnish: peruskorjata (fi), saneerata (fi), remontoida (fi) French: rénover (fr), réparer (fr) Georgian: please add this translation if you can

German: renovieren (de), erneuern (de), restaurieren (de) Japanese: 改装する (ja) (かいそうする, kaisō-surú), 修築する (ja) (しゅうちくする, shūchiku-surú), 更改する (ja) (こうかいする, kōkai-surú) Russian: ремонтировать (ru) (remontírovat'), обновлять (ru) (obnovlját'), восстанавливать (ru) (vosstanávlivat') Turkish: yenilemek (tr), onarmak (tr)

to tear down and rebuild

Finnish: rakentaa (fi) uudelleen (fi)

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Latin

Verb

renovāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of renovō