renovate

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin renovatus, perfect passive participle of renovō (“I renew”), either directly or as a back-formation from renovation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹenəʊveɪt/, /ˈɹɛnəˌveɪt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɹenəveɪt/

Verb

renovate (third-person singular simple present renovat, present participle ing, simple past and past participle renovated)

1. (transitive) To renew; to revamp something to make it look new again.

   This house is shabby: it needs renovating.

2. (transitive) To restore to freshness or vigor.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:repair

Derived terms

• renovation

Translations

to renew; to revamp

• Armenian: նորոգել (hy) (norogel), վերանորոգել (hy) (veranorogel), նորացնել (hy) (noracʻnel)
• Catalan: renovar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 裝修／装修 (zh) (zhuāngxiū), 装修 (zh) (zhuāngxiū), 修復／修复 (zh) (xiūfù), 修复 (zh) (xiūfù), 翻新 (zh) (fānxīn)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: renoveren (nl)
• Esperanto: renovigi
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: peruskorjata, saneerata, remontoida (fi)
• French: rénover (fr), remettre à neuf (fr)
• Galician: renovar
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: renovieren (de), erneuern (de), restaurieren (de)
• Greek: ανακαινίζω (el) (anakainízo)
• Hungarian: renovál (hu), felújít (hu)
• Irish: athnuaigh
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
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• 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)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: whakahou, mekemeke
• Mongolian: шинэчлэх (mn) (šinečlex)
• Polish: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: renovar (pt)
• Russian: ремонти́ровать (ru) (remontírovatʹ), обновля́ть (ru) (obnovljátʹ), восстана́вливать (ru) (vosstanávlivatʹ)
• Spanish: renovar (es), remozar (es)
• Swedish: renovera (sv), restaurera (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: yenilemek (tr), onarmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: оновлювати (onovljuvaty), обновляти (obnovljaty), оновити (onovyty), обновити (obnovyty)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

to restore to freshness or vigor

• Finnish: virkistää (fi)
• Maori: whakahauora
• Portuguese: renovar (pt)
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• Spanish: renovar (es)
• Swedish: renovera (sv), restaurera (sv)

See also

• rejuvenate

Anagrams

• overneat

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) renovāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of renovō