revise

Definition

To review, alter and amend, especially of written material.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French réviser, from Latin revīsō, from re- + vīsō (“examine”), frequentative of videō (“see”).

Example Sentences

• "This statute should be revised."
• "There has been a demand for a revised edition of my English Translation and Commentary of the Holy Qur′an since the end of the Second World War."
• "1983, Willard Scott Thompson, Chapter 1: The Third World Revisited, Willard Scott Thompson (editor), The Third World: Premises of U.S. Policy, Revised edition, page 15, The chapter that deals specifically with singular examples is Daniel Pipes′ revised study of the Third World peoples of Soviet Central Asia."

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