Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See revolutionize.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To radically or significantly change, as in a revolution.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb change radically
  • verb fill with revolutionary ideas

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Examples

  • Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | UK News :: Pill that will help you live to 100: "A PILL to help people live to 100 free from debilitating health problems is set to 'revolutionise' ageing, experts said yesterday."

    Archive 2010-01-31 Bill Crider 2010

  • Austrian chancellor Wolfgang Schussel is cited as saying that "national parliaments are going to have a far greater role to play" and Jens-Peter Bonde is the one who says it could "revolutionise" EU law-making - depending on "whether national parliaments make proper use of the facility."

    Another opportunity to be ignored Richard 2006

  • Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.

    Orthodoxy 1874-1936 1990

  • Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.

    Orthodoxy 1905

  • Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.

    Orthodoxy 1905

  • If successful, it could lead to drugs or treatments administered after an attack which could "revolutionise" the quality of life enjoyed by victims of heart disease.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • If successful, it could lead to drugs or treatments administered after an attack which could "revolutionise" the quality of life enjoyed by victims of heart disease.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • If successful, it could lead to drugs or treatments administered after an attack which could "revolutionise" the quality of life enjoyed by victims of heart disease.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • The identification of 20 genes which could help explain the causes of kidney disease could one day "revolutionise" treatment, researchers say.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

  • The identification of 20 genes which could help explain the causes of kidney disease could one day "revolutionise" treatment, researchers say.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

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