revamp
Americanverb (used with object)
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revamps,
present (3rd person singular)
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revamped,
past participle, past
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revamping
present participle
noun
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revamps
plural
verb
noun
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something that has been renovated or revamped
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the act or process of revamping
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Nouns
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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revampsimple
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revampssimple
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have revampedperfect
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has revampedperfect
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am revampingprogressive
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are revampingprogressive
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is revampingprogressive
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have been revampingperfect progressive
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has been revampingperfect progressive
Past
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revampedsimple
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had revampedperfect
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was revampingprogressive
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were revampingprogressive
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had been revampingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of revamp
Explanation
If you revamp something, you renovate or remake it. You'll have to revamp your vacation plans if the hotel where you were planning to stay has closed for repairs and renovations. The vamp of a shoe or boot is the front part that covers the top of the foot. If that part of your shoe needed repair or replacement, then you would have to revamp it. From this sense, we get the more common meaning of revamp — to restore or fix up. Your favorite hotel might be trying to revamp its image, to reinvent its reputation as a family resort.
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When Mike Flanagan decided to revamp Stephen King’s horror classic, he brought Carrie and her mother, Margaret, to the present as they contend with the outside world’s cruelty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Two Chinese anti-submarine corvettes have docked at its port for long stretches, although US and Japanese vessels have also made port calls since the base's revamp.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Microsoft does give some visibility on the back end to administrators, so we had to revamp our allocation model entirely.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Here BBC Sport can take you to the core of some of City's key transfer calls from their extensive three-year squad revamp - including the £116m signing of Elliot Anderson.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
They pledged to revamp their menus, cutting calories, reducing sodium, and offering healthier options for kids’ meals.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Target TGT -0.95%decrease; red down pointing triangle is laying off about 500 employees as its new chief executive, Michael Fiddelke, revamps its shopping experience in an attempt to reverse declining sales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
Even before winter started, consumer advocates sounded the alarm on higher heating costs in light of torrid electricity demand growth and costly revamps of pipes and other infrastructure that have led to utility rate hikes.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
He has appeared in more than 190 episodes, according to IMDb, and will be among the original stars bidding farewell to the series as it revamps its cast ahead of Season 12.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024
Adding Boyd gives Callahan another option as he revamps an offense that ranked 29th in the NFL, averaging a mere 180.4 yards per game.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2024
The possibility of revamps, revivals cannot be overruled entirely be they in similar, related or different fields of interest.
From PoPHILO by Dom
In response, school lunch menus were revamped to offer more meatless and dairy-free options.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
The family ultimately expects to have most of its fortune managed through the revamped family office, including oversight of outside firms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
He spoke about staying vital as hip-hop waxed and waned commercially, how his office’s bar revamped local nightlife, and whether technology has changed the value of good taste.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Next week’s launch will also be a high-stakes test of Apple’s AI capabilities, as it’ll be the first time that users will be able to experience a revamped Siri powered by Apple Intelligence.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
I was wearing a newly altered, totally revamped military-style jacket with epaulets and brass buttons, and I’d embroidered the back, by hand; it read, in a loose script, people are strange.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
Take the headline grabber: revamping social care in England.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
And Rome could not simply task a future buyer with revamping the site, he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Using tax-free bond financing, a developer is revamping the upper floor of the two-story building into 24 housing units estimated to cost $1.25 million each.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Warsh has launched five task forces aimed at revamping how the central bank approaches monetary-policy decisions.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 10, 2026
That would lead to an error like the one Bede encountered when revamping the calendar.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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