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revolutionise

alt. To radically or significantly change, as in a revolution. vb. To radically or significantly change, as in a revolution.

WordNet
revolutionise
  1. v. fill with revolutionary ideas [syn: revolutionize, inspire]

  2. change radically; "E-mail revolutionized communication in academe" [syn: revolutionize, overturn]

Usage examples of "revolutionise".

It is not too much to say, as it appears to me, that the Boers have in some ways revolutionised our ideas in regard to the use of artillery, by bringing a fresh and healthy common-sense to bear upon a subject which had been unduly fettered by pedantic rules.

They completely revolutionised the classical architecture and interior decorations, and established the new style which we have described in the chapter of the tea-room, a style to whose influence even the palaces and monasteries built after the sixteenth century have all been subject.

You admitted yourself that it was my influence that had revolutionised your character.

Here was Darwin who revolutionised zoology, and here was Isaac Newton who gave a new direction to astronomy.

The majority of revolutionises are the enemies of discipline and fatigue mostly.

He repeated that he had no intention to let the revolutionises do away with him.

Starting, in pursuance of this aim, with a single specimen,--her nephew, Willie Partridge, who was working on a new explosive which would eventually revolutionise war--she had gradually added to her collections, until now she gave shelter beneath her terra-cotta roof to no fewer than six young and unrecognised geniuses.

Canals have not yet revolutionised the agriculture of China, so the areas of cultivated land are hard to see from the air.

Choam Goldberg had revolutionised micrometeorology, that no-one had really understood all that he was doing, and that he had finally had some kind of a nervous breakdown while conducting his experiments.

It revolutionised his idea of the Explorers' Club's extreme selectness, of its social purity.