revamp

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ vamp (“to apply a vamp/patch”, verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈvamp/
• IPA^(key): /ɹiˈvæmp/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -æmp

Verb

revamp (third-person singular simple present revamps, present participle revamping, simple past and past participle revamped)

1. (transitive) To renovate, revise, improve or renew; to patch.

   They plan to revamp the historical theater in the old downtown.

Synonyms

• ameliorate, buff (game slang), improve, renovate
• See also Thesaurus:repair

Antonyms

• debuff, deteriorate, nerf (game slang)

Translations

to renovate, revise, improve or renew; to patch

• Arabic: أَجَدَّ (ʔajadda), أَحْيَا (ʔaḥyā), اِسْتَجَدَّ (istajadda), تَجَدَّدَ (tajaddada), جَدَّدَ (jaddada), حَدَّثَ (ḥaddaṯa), عَصَّرَ (ʕaṣṣara), نَقَّحَ (naqqaḥa)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 修補／修补 (zh) (xiūbǔ), 修补 (zh) (xiūbǔ), 修改 (zh) (xiūgǎi)

• Dutch: verbeteren (nl)
• Finnish: parannella (fi), rukata
• French: reviser (fr), renouveler (fr), améliorer (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: umgestalten (de), aufpolieren, umarbeiten (de), ausbessern (de) (wiederherstellen)
• Hungarian: kipofoz (hu), rendbehoz (hu), átalakít (hu)
• Italian: revisionare
• Occitan: renovelar, renovar, revisar, melhorar (oc)
• Spanish: modernizar (es)
• Turkish: yenilemek (tr), tâmir etmek

Noun

revamp (plural revamps)

1. A renovation, revision or improvement

References

• “revamp”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• vamper