Verb

• S: (v) refurbish, renovate, freshen up (make brighter and prettier) "we refurbished the guest wing"; "My wife wants us to renovate"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• S: (v) gentrify (renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations) "gentrify a row of old houses"; "gentrify the old center of town"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) regenerate, renew (reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new) "We renewed our friendship after a hiatus of twenty years"; "They renewed their membership"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• W: (n) regeneration [Related to: regenerate] (forming again (especially with improvements or removal of defects); renewing and reconstituting)
• W: (n) renewal [Related to: renew] (the act of renewing)
• derivationally related form
• Overview
• synset
• sentence frame
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• Somebody ----s something
• [Applies to renovate] Somebody ----s