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reˈvamp, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
To vamp or patch up again. Also, to rewrite in a new form; to renovate, remake, devise anew; to revise. Hence reˈvamped ppl. a.; reˈvamping vbl. n.
1850D. G. Mitchell Lorgnette I. 141 Even the soberer subjects of History, he told me, must be re-vamped in some tasty way. 1859G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. 447 The revamping of our own writings,..after an interval so long.., is a dangerous experiment. 1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 19 Some of them at least fifteen centuries old when revamped. 1878‘Mark Twain’ in Atlantic Monthly May 617/2 He had to keep on procuring magazine acceptances and then revamping the manuscripts to make them presentable. 1931Ford & Crowther Moving Forward xi. 164 We decided to revamp our entire industry from top to bottom. 1934J. A. & A. Lomax Amer. Ballads & Folk Songs i. 37 Sanders then changed the words ‘Jimmie Jones’ to ‘Casey Jones’. Later it was picked up by some traveling vaudevillians and revamped to make the popularly known song, ‘Casey Jones’. 1941W. C. Handy Father of Blues xii. 169 The revamped outfit was acting strangely, whispering behind their hands. 1945Nelson & Wright Tomorrow's House vii. 79 This is just the living-room function slightly revamped. 1947Sun (Baltimore) 22 Dec. 2/1 Eastern and western states will revamp their foreign policies in the light of the situation in Germany. 1950Manch. Guardian Weekly 7 Dec. 3 The British did some rapid discreet revamping of their agenda. 1956W. H. Whyte Organization Man (1957) 99 Several of the technical schools have been revamping their curriculums. 1960O. Skilbeck ABC of Film & TV 108 Re-vamp, to use an existing set for further shooting by altering it and adapting its practicals for another sequence. 1961Harper's Bazaar Dec. 60 Brilliant revamping of the famous Helena Rubinstein flat in Paris. 1965Listener 16 Dec. 984/2 Over the past three years they [sc. the East Germans] have done a lot of revamping, and are introducing what they rather ponderously call ‘the new system of planning and guiding the national economy’. 1968Observer 29 Dec. 32/3 On Wednesday, Punch appears revamped and under new editorship. 1979Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVII. 122/1 The new or revamped public schools did not set out to equip their pupils to lead great industrial enterprises.
So reˈvamp n.
1881Philadelphia Rec. No. 3418/1 All that has been published is simply a revamp of what came out in the Congressional investigation. 1943Yank 10 Feb. 8 If a plane comes in badly shot up and has to go to basic engineering for a revamp, two crew members will go with her and personally inspect everything that's done. 1973Scotsman 12 Jan. 3/1 Rockware Glass, the {pstlg}16 million container group, are planning a major revamp of their factories. 1979Now! 21–7 Sept. 59/3 The Navy IQ test was introduced in 1942, and given a ‘revamp’ in 1977. |