revolutionize

[ rev-uh-loo-shuh-nahyz ]

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verb (used with object),rev·o·lu·tion·ized, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·ing.

to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
to subject to a political revolution.

Origin of revolutionize

First recorded in 1790–1800; revolution + -ize

Also especially British, rev·o·lu·tion·ise .

Other words from revolutionize

rev·o·lu·tion·iz·er, noun
qua·si-rev·o·lu·tion·ized, adjective
un·rev·o·lu·tion·ized, adjective

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How to use revolutionize in a sentence

Both parties knew that it was the fixed intention of the French to revolutionise Naples.
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson | Robert Southey
If it's what he thinks—if he can really cast his brass patterns without air-holes—it will revolutionise our business.
April Hopes | William Dean Howells
Miss Kate Vaughan, at the Gaiety, is already beginning to revolutionise stage dancing, making it at once graceful and decorous.
A Book of Burlesque | Willam Davenport Adams
Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.
Orthodoxy | G. K. Chesterton
Supposing he intends to reform and revolutionise Society at large by sublime self-sacrifice.
Oscar Wilde | Leonard Cresswell Ingleby

British Dictionary definitions for revolutionize

revolutionize

revolutionise

/ (ˌrɛvəˈluːʃəˌnaɪz) /

verb(tr)

to bring about a radical change in: science has revolutionized civilization
to inspire or infect with revolutionary ideas: they revolutionized the common soldiers

to cause a revolution in (a country, etc)

Derived forms of revolutionize

revolutionizer or revolutioniser, noun

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