revise
pronunciation
How to pronounce revise in British English:
UK [rɪˈvaɪz]
How to pronounce revise in American English:
US [rɪˈvaɪz]
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- Noun:
- the act of rewriting something
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- Verb:
- make revisions in
- revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving
Word Origin
- revise
- revise: see visit
- revise (v.)
- 1560s, "to look at again," from Middle French reviser (13c.), from Latin revisere "look at again, visit again, look back on," frequentative of revidere (past participle revisus), from re- "again" (see re-) + videre "to see" (see vision). Meaning "to look over again with intent to improve or amend" is recorded from 1590s. Related: Revised; revising.
Example
- 1. Did murakami resist or revise any parts of your translation ?
- 2. Second , economic models often revise historical estimates of potential output with the benefit of hindsight .
- 3. He suggested that the parties should revise their deal .
- 4. He emerged from the hospital determined to revise his ways radically .
- 5. Ups reorganized its u.s. operations to eliminate some management jobs and revise its route map .