Revolutionize
['rɛvə'lʊʃə'naɪz]
Definition
(verb.) change radically; 'E-mail revolutionized communication in academe'.
(verb.) fill with revolutionary ideas.
(verb.) overthrow by a revolution, of governments.
Typist: Sharif--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Remodel, reform, new model.
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Examples
- Electricity is always his main study, and electricity he expects in time will revolutionize modern life by making heat, power, and light practically as cheap as air. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Very few of them saw how it was to revolutionize the farmer’s labor, but one or two did. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The scheme worked, albeit in a primitive way, and Watt saw that he was on the track of an engine that would revolutionize the labor of men. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It is obvious, for instance, that the recall of judges will not revolutionize the national life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The idea, born, one might say, with the new century, has already done more to revolutionize transportation than all of the inventions of all the centuries that have gone before. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- With the coming of the metal card index addressograph and the modern graphotype for making the metal address plates, the addressing machine business was revolutionized, as Mr. Duncan put it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The man who had been a vendor of wigs had now revolutionized the whole spinning world. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The ability of the electric current to decompose a liquid and to deposit a metal constituent has practically revolutionized the process of printing. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Lowe, who obtained United States patent No. 167,847, September 21, 1875, and revolutionized the gas making industry. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- New industries spring up, and old ones are revolutionized. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- How little could Beckmann have supposed that an invention, which he considered too insignificant to be mentioned, would, in the course of fifty years, have revolutionized the world! Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In short, the motor truck is revolutionizing transportation. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Everyone knows how child study is revolutionizing the school room and the curriculum. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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