revise

To revise is to reconsider or change something.

(verb)

  1. When you change your opinion on something, this is an example of a situation where you revise your opinion.
  2. When you make changes to a short story you wrote, this is an example of a situation where you revise your story.

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See revise in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb revised, revising

  1. to read over carefully and correct, improve, or update where necessary: to revise a manuscript, a revised edition of a book
  2. to change or amend: to revise tax rates

Origin: Fr reviser < L revisere < re-, back + visere, to survey, freq. of videre, to see: see vision

noun

  1. a revising or a revised form of something; revision
  2. Printing a proof taken after corrections have been made, for looking over or correcting again

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See revise in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb re·vised, re·vis·ing, re·vis·es
  1. To prepare a newly edited version of (a text).
  2. To reconsider and change or modify: I have revised my opinion of him. See Synonyms at correct.
noun
Printing (rēˈvīzˌ, rĭ-vīzˈ)
A proof made from an earlier proof on which corrections have been made.

Origin:

Origin: Latin revīsere, to visit again, look at again

Origin: : re-, re-

Origin: + vīsere

Origin: , frequentative of vidēre, to see; see review

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Related Forms:

  • re·visˈa·ble adjective
  • re·visˈer, re·viˈsor noun

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