单词 | re-revolutionize |
释义 | re-revolutionizev. transitive. To revolutionize again (in various senses). Cf. counter-revolutionize vb. at counter-revolution n. Derivatives. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > revolution > make revolutionary in character [verb (transitive)] > make counter-revolutionary re-revolutionize1803 counter-revolutionize1827 1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 89 Italy may very likely be re-revolutionised. 1850 C. MacFarlane Turkey & its Destiny II. xxxii. 668 The effects of an alliance with France re-revolutionized against Russia and our old ally Austria. 1878 Galaxy Jan. 144/1 That revolution which went..so deep that it upturned not only the politics of France, but its social organization, and even changed the names of the months and the designations of the years, was in a few years not only checked, but re-revolutionized. 1972 Pacific Affairs 45 338 Determined, after a long life of struggle, to prevent China from turning ‘revisionist’, he [sc. Mao] decided to re-revolutionize the Chinese citizen and purge the offending elements within the Chinese Party. 2003 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 2 Nov. 1 They were shooting for..something that upgraded the gripping, novel first ‘Matrix’ into a film that would, at least to some degree, re-revolutionize science fiction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1803 |
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