revolutionize

pronunciation

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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 .

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