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Grammar : Verb
Spell : ri-vahyz
Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈvaɪz



Definition of revise

Origin :
  • 1560s, "to look at again," from Middle French reviser (13c.), from Latin revisere "look at again, visit again, look back on," frequentative of revidere (past participle revisus), from re- "again" (see re-) + videre "to see" (see vision). Meaning "to look over again with intent to improve or amend" is recorded from 1590s. Related: Revised; revising.
  • verb correct, edit
Example sentences :
  • In the face of this statement Mr. Hadley would do well to revise his figures.
  • Extract from : « The Railroad Question » by William Larrabee
  • You look in upon me in the evening, and we'll revise it together.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 » by Various
  • We revise this latter part, and we say "for they shall be gods."
  • Extract from : « Sex=The Unknown Quantity » by Ali Nomad
  • He suggested that perhaps I might revise the parts in the light of the whole.
  • Extract from : « Mind and Motion and Monism » by George John Romanes
  • Paul began to revise his opinion as to the probable character of his associates.
  • Extract from : « Despair's Last Journey » by David Christie Murray
  • He would have to revise his notes of the man, that was plain.
  • Extract from : « Sonnie-Boy's People » by James B. Connolly
  • The other two papers I got to-day are given to revise, and are to be printed soon.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. » by Mrs. Thomson
  • Here was expert opinion after a second revise, with help of water-marks!
  • Extract from : « The Education of Henry Adams » by Henry Adams
  • But when the second growth begun to show up red she had to revise her forecast.
  • Extract from : « Torchy As A Pa » by Sewell Ford
  • We are now required by candor and justice to revise such notions.
  • Extract from : « India: What can it teach us? » by F. Max Mller

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