revolutionize
pronunciation
How to pronounce revolutionize in British English: UK [ˌrevəˈluːʃənaɪz]
How to pronounce revolutionize in American English: US [ˌrevəˈluːʃənaɪz]
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- Verb:
- change radically
- overthrow by a revolution, of governments
- fill with revolutionary ideas
Word Origin
- revolutionize (v.)
- 1797, "to cause to undergo a (political) revolution;" see revolution + -ize. Transferred sense of "to change a thing completely and fundamentally" is first recorded 1799. Related: Revolutionized; revolutionizing.
Example
- 1. I risked my life to revolutionize the south .
- 2. Ontologies and semantic web technologies revolutionize these efforts .
- 3. Rauch : learnboost was founded to revolutionize education through web technologies .
- 4. Google and the geeks from silicon valley aim to revolutionize the 70-year-old tv industry .
- 5. The more technologies that exist , the greater the number of combinatorial possibilities , resulting in ever newer and more complex products that revolutionize industries .