renovate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb restore to a previous or better condition
    restitute.
    • They renovated the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
  2. verb make brighter and prettier
    refurbish; freshen up.
    • we refurbished the guest wing
    • My wife wants us to renovate
  3. verb give new life or energy to
    repair; revivify; recreate; reanimate; revive; vivify; animate; quicken.
    • A hot soup will revive me
    • This will renovate my spirits
    • This treatment repaired my health

WordNet

Ren"o*vate transitive verb
Etymology
L. renovatus, p. p. of renovare;pref. re- re- + novare to make new, fr. novus new. See New, and Renew.
Definitions
  1. To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew.
    All nature feels the reniovating force Of winter. Thomson.

Webster 1913