Etymology
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Ultimately from Latin renovatus, perfect passive participle of renovō (“I renew”), either directly or as a back-formation from renovation.
Pronunciation
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renovate (third-person singular simple present renovates, present participle renovating, simple past and past participle renovated)
- (transitive) To renew; to revamp something to make it look new again.
- This house is shabby: it needs renovating.
- (transitive) To restore to freshness or vigor.
1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 202:All shall relent
Who hear me—tears as mine have flowed, shall flow,
Hearts beat as mine now beats, with such intent
As renovates the world; a will omnipotent! […]
And power shall then abound, and hope arise once more.
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to renew; to revamp
- Armenian: նորոգել (hy) (norogel), վերանորոգել (hy) (veranorogel), նորացնել (hy) (noracʻnel)
- Bulgarian: възстановявам (bg) (vǎzstanovjavam), реставрирам (bg) (restavriram)
- Catalan: renovar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 裝修／装修 (zh) (zhuāngxiū), 修復／修复 (zh) (xiūfù), 翻新 (zh) (fānxīn)
- Czech: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: renoveren (nl)
- Esperanto: renovigi
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: peruskorjata, saneerata, remontoida (fi)
- French: rénover (fr), remettre à neuf (fr)
- Galician: renovar
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: renovieren (de), erneuern (de), restaurieren (de)
- Greek: ανακαινίζω (el) (anakainízo)
- Hungarian: renovál (hu), felújít (hu)
- Irish: athnuaigh
- Italian: rinnovare (it)
- Japanese: 改装する (ja) (かいそうする, kaisō-surú), 修築する (ja) (しゅうちくする, shūchiku-surú), 更改する (ja) (こうかいする, kōkai-surú)
- Khmer: ជួសជុល (km) (cuəh cul)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: renovo
- Malayalam: നവീകരിക്കുക (ml) (navīkarikkuka)
- Maori: whakahou, mekemeke
- Mongolian: шинэчлэх (mn) (šinečlex)
- Polish: remontować (pl) impf
- Portuguese: renovar (pt)
- Russian: ремонти́ровать (ru) (remontírovatʹ), обновля́ть (ru) (obnovljátʹ), восстана́вливать (ru) (vosstanávlivatʹ)
- Spanish: renovar (es), remozar (es)
- Swedish: renovera (sv), restaurera (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Tibetan: ལེགས་བཅོས་གཏོང (legs bcos gtong)
- Turkish: yenilemek (tr), onarmak (tr)
- Ukrainian: оновлювати (onovljuvaty), обновляти (obnovljaty), оновити (onovyty), обновити (obnovyty)
- Vietnamese: tu sửa (vi)
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to restore to freshness or vigor
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