| 单词 | revamp |
| 释义 | revamp (once / 3906 pages) v If you revamp something, you renovate or remake it. You'll have to revamp your vacation plans if the hotel where you were planning to stay has closed for repairs and renovations. The vamp of a shoe or boot is the front part that covers the top of the foot. If that part of your shoe needed repair or replacement, then you would have to revamp it. From this sense, we get the more common meaning of revamp — to restore or fix up. Your favorite hotel might be trying to revamp its image, to reinvent its reputation as a family resort. WORD FAMILYrevamp: revamped, revamping, revamps USAGE EXAMPLESIt committed to spending $12 billion on airport construction and revamping this year alone. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) The software giant recently revamped its Dynamics software for web delivery. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) Its failure to be nominated for an Academy Award caused such an outcry that the process for nominating Oscar-worthy documentaries was eventually revamped. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) 1v to patch up or renovate; repair or restore They revamped their old house before selling it Hyper regenerate, renew reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new 2v provide (a shoe) with a new vamp revamp my old boots Syn|Hyper vamp bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken |
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