Lexic.us

Definition of Revamp

1. Verb. To patch up or renovate; repair or restore. "They revamped their old house before selling it"

2. Verb. Provide (a shoe) with a new vamp. "Revamp my old boots"

Definition of Revamp

1. v. t. To vamp again; hence, to patch up; to reconstruct.

Definition of Revamp

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Revamp

1. to make over [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Revamp

revalorize revalorized revalorizes revalorizing revaluable revaluate revaluated revaluates revaluating revaluation

revaluations revalue revalued revalues revaluing revamp (current term) revamped revamper revampers revamping

revampings revamps revanche revanches revanchism revanchisme revanchisms revanchist revanchists revarnish

Literary usage of Revamp

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"revamp, to, a verb derived from to vamp, which meant to put new upper leather to shoes; this was lengthened into revamp, under a vague sense of something ..."

2. Impacts of Market-Based Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Policies on U.S by Arthur M. Wiese (1998)
"As a result, the average unit production cost increase of ammonia produced in older plants, ie, those averaging 9.5 years since last revamp, is estimated to ..."

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