renovate
verb (used with object)
to restore to good condition; make new or as if new again; repair.
renovates
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present tense formof renovate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Prices may go up as supply contracts, insurance payments flood in, and investment renovates buildings to code; prices may go down as rising premiums and maintenance fees get tacked on.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2024
Back in Baltimore, David Lidz runs Waterbottle Cooperative, a grassroots organisation that buys up decaying properties in Baltimore and renovates them to rent to people on low incomes.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2024
Beyond the Carter Center, the couple became the most famous volunteers for Habitat for Humanity, the international outfit that builds, repairs and renovates homes for low-income people.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
Through this initiative, Ivorian artistic director Lemon Otto renovates external facades of older building such as Pyramid, which was completed in 1973 under the direction of the Italian architect Rinaldo Olivieri.
From Reuters ● Apr. 24, 2023
When nature renovates it is never satisfied to leave any obstruction in any part of the body.
From Philosophy of Osteopathy by A. T. (Andrew Taylor) Still
