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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
revamp
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ ABC plans to revamp the show before next season.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Distillers revamped tequila's image by packaging it in eye-catching bottles.
▪ In December, Vitro injected $ 126 million into Anchor to revamp its finances and operations.
▪ Now the new town is being revamped.
▪ The company is coming off a disappointing quarter and is revamping its workstations.
▪ The Pentagon subsequently revamped and greatly enlarged its team looking into the issue.
▪ The renewed concern follows a £6 million investment by Merseytravel to revamp the loss-making ferries in 1990.
▪ The site was revamped two months ago and a new system was installed to enable Tesco to handle increased levels of traffic.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Revamp

Revamp \Re*vamp"\, v. t. To vamp again; hence, to patch up; to reconstruct.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
revamp

1850, from re- "again" + vamp (v.) "patch up, replace the upper front part of a shoe." An earlier verb was new-vamp (1630s). Modern use is typically figurative. Related: Revamped; revamping.

Wiktionary
revamp

vb. (context transitive English) To renovate, revise, improve or renew; to patch.

WordNet
revamp
  1. v. to patch up or renovate; repair or restore; "They revamped their old house before selling it"

  2. provide (a shoe) with a new vamp; "revamp my old boots" [syn: vamp]

Wikipedia
ReVamp

ReVamp is a Dutch progressive metal band formed by singer-songwriter Floor Jansen after her previous band After Forever disbanded in 2009.

ReVamp (album)

ReVamp is the self-titled 2010 debut by Dutch progressive metal act ReVamp. The album was released in Sweden and Finland on 26 May 2010, in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Spain on the 28 May 2010, and the rest of Europe on 31 May 2010. It was released in United States on 27 July 2010.

The album is the first release by lead singer Floor Jansen since her previous band After Forever's self-titled album of 2007.

Usage examples of "revamp".

Genomics and Bioinformatics obviating the pooling of risk within defined groups, I have had to revamp my position, which has resulted in my switching from one extreme to the other.

He had revamped the training of recruits, choosing only the best and making great knights of them, and he had built facilities for his burgeoning army, gutting the abandoned buildings of Chancellery Square and turning them into useful war schools and barracks.

Diplomatically, they made only the most delicate references to the revamping job Clocker had done on his tip sheet.

Jaina had hoped to make the TIE fighter her own vehicle so she could joyride just like Lowie did in his revamped T-23.

He revamped the opening, stressing the movieland banality of the story, as if to lure an unimaginative producer.

All of them would probably prefer a revamped form of containment, if only because they would all find regime change somewhat unpalatable for one reason or another.

Now his deftest scheming served to keep him afloat but no more than that and he was contemplating the necessity to change his outlook and his goals, to completely revamp the way he worked.

Moreover, building on special and general relativity, string theory requires its own severe revamping of our conceptions of space and time.

White House agreed that the revamped air base should be studied for potential environmental damage.

The emergence of our dreaming attention is a direct corollary of revamping our lives.

That would have absolved some part of me from the crushing responsibil- ity of revamping my understanding of the world.

In this last memo, I argued that because of the erosion of containment, the next administration would be left with two choices: to adopt an aggressive policy of regime change to try to get rid of Saddam quickly or undertake a major revamping of the sanctions to try to choke off the smuggling and prevent Saddam from reconstituting his military, particularly his hidden WMD programs.

Still, his biggest project at the moment was revamping the teetering Old Line Savings and Loan to make it the biggest lending institution in Boston.

Some decades ago, when the penal laws were revamped, they found that it cost more to keep a criminal in prison than to send him to Harvard.

He tossed them into the revamper, stepped into the toilet cubicle and relieved himself, washed up, fizzed his mouth clean, and put on fresh shorts.