Revamp

Definitions: Revamp

Revamp

Verb

1. To patch up or renovate; repair or restore; "They revamped their old house before selling it".

2. Provide (a shoe) with a new vamp; "revamp my old boots".

Date "revamp" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Synonym: Revamp

Synonym: vamp (v). (additional references)

Domain	Title
Books	Doing Up Old Junk: How to Revamp Shabby Furnishing With Style (Doing Up Series) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Current and expected cost pressures have already compelled some firms to revamp their respective channels of distribution, such as foregoing local distributors and selling directly to hospitals. (references)
Economic History	Chile	There have been several unsuccessful attempts to revamp the railroad system. (references)
	Syria	In early 2000, SyrianAir (Syria's flag carrier) received the last of six A-320 Airbus aircraft to revamp its fleet. (references)
	Kenya	These projects are intended to revamp the country's available electrical power, of which current demand exceeds supply by up to 30 percent. (references)
Human Rights	Albania	In addition to such training, the Ministry of Public Order started to revamp and update the Police Academy's curriculum and promote sound and effective teaching practices of instructors. (references)
Women	China	As the Government's plan to revamp state-owned enterprises is carried out, millions of workers have been laid off. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Revamp" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 49.23% of the time. "Revamp" is used about 65 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	49.23%	32	61,292
Noun (singular)	41.54%	27	66,962
Lexical Verb (base form)	7.69%	5	157,705
Noun (common)	1.54%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	65	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "revamp"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏أعاد التنظيم (rehash, remodel, reorder), ‏رمم (furbish, mend, patch, recondition, reconstructed, redeem, refit, refurbish, refurbishment, rehabilitate, renovate, repair, restore). (various references)

Bulgarian		закърпвам (darn, mend, patch, piece, piece up, stitch up, vamp), преработвам (adapt, overwork, process, recast, recycle, rehandle, remodel, revise, work, work over, write over), поправям (adjust, alter, amend, blue pencil, castigate, cobble, correct, do up, doctor, emend, fix, fix up, mend, polish, recast, recondition, rectify, redeem, redress, remedy, renovate, repair, retouch, retrieve, revise, service, true, vamp), подновявам (do up, furbish, novelise, novelize, redintegrate, refurbish, renew, renovate, reopen, reproduce, restore, resume, take up, vamp). (various references)

Chinese		修补 (fettle, Fettling, Patched, Patching). (various references)

Czech		oprášit (dust, dust off), obnovit (give back, re establish, rebuild, redintegrate, regenerate, reinstate, renew, renovate, reproduce, restore, resume, retrieve, revive, rub up). (various references)

Danish		modernisere det rullende materiel (to modernise the rolling stock, to rebuild the rolling stock, to recondition the rolling stock, to reconstruct the rolling stock, to remodel the rolling stock, to renovate the rolling stock, to revamp the rolling stock). (various references)

Dutch		rollend materieel verbouwen (to modernise the rolling stock, to rebuild the rolling stock, to recondition the rolling stock, to reconstruct the rolling stock, to remodel the rolling stock, to renovate the rolling stock, to revamp the rolling stock), rollend materieel moderniseren (to modernise the rolling stock, to rebuild the rolling stock, to recondition the rolling stock, to reconstruct the rolling stock, to remodel the rolling stock, to renovate the rolling stock, to revamp the rolling stock). (various references)

Farsi		نونماکردن , وصله پینه کردن , دوباره وصله یاسرهم بندی کردن , دوباره رویه انداختن . (various references)

French		retaper, réorganiser (remodel, reorder, reorganize). (various references)

German		umarbeiten (alter, make over, recast, revise, rework, rewrite, to make over). (various references)

Greek		ανακαινίζω (do out, do over, recondition, redecorate, reface, reform, refurbish, renovate, vamp). (various references)

Hungarian		átalakít (convert, metamorphose, modify, remake, remodel, reshuffle, to convert, to do up, to make over, to realign, to reblock, to reshape, to reshuffle, to retrofit, to transfigure, to transform, to translate, to transmogrify, to transmute, transform, transmogrify, transmute). (various references)

Italian		rimodernare (modernise, modernize). (various references)

Pig Latin		evampray

Portuguese		remendar (botch, bushel, clout, darn, fudge, mend, patch, patch up, piece, run up, slubber, vamp), pôr gáspeas novas em, gaspear (vamp), consertar (clout, Cooper, darn, doctor's office, fix, fix up, make up, mend, nibble, patch, patch up, patchouli, recondition, refit, renovate, repair, restore, vamp). (various references)

Russian		переделывать (adapt, alter, customize, makeover, readjust, recast, recondition, redo, re-do, re-done, rehash, remade, remake, remodel, rework, turn, unmake). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prepraviti (alter, redecorate, redo, remake, remodel, rework). (various references)

Spanish		remendar (doctor, doctor up, mend, patch, patch up, repair, tinker, vamp), rehacer (do over, hash smth. up, redo, re-do, refashion, remake, rework, rewrite), modernizar (modernize, streamline, update, upgrade). (various references)

Swedish		göra om (redo, remake). (various references)

Thai		การปรับปรุงใหม่ (recension), ปรับปรุงใหม่ (rehash, rework). (various references)

Turkish		yenilemek (make over, modernize, rebuild, recondition, re-create, redintegrate, refurbish, rejuvenate, renew, renovate, touch up, vamp up), yamamak (doctor, foist, inflict, patch, piece up, repair, vamp up), modernize etmek (modernize, rearm, streamline, update), düzeltmeler yapmak. (various references)

Ukranian		лагодити (amend, darn, do up, mend, piece, piece up, refit, repair, vamp), перекроювати. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "revamp": revamped, revamper, revampers, revamping, revamps. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Revamp" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: rcvma, Resampa, revampe, revampt, revem, rewamp, Rezvani, Rovuma, Ruvuma, rvcma. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "revamp" (pronounced rēva"mp)
4	-v a" m p	vamp.
3	-a" m p	amp, camp, champ, clamp, cramp, damp, decamp, encamp, Gamp, lamp, ramp, samp, stamp, tamp, tramp, unclamp.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: vamper.
	Words within the letters "a-e-m-p-r-v"
	-1 letter: parve, paver, remap.
	-2 letters: aper, aver, mare, pare, pave, pear, perm, pram, ramp, rape, rave, ream, reap, vamp, vera.
	-3 letters: amp, ape, are, arm, ave, ear, era, mae, map, mar, pam, par, pea, per, ram, rap, rem, rep, rev, var.
	-4 letters: ae, am, ar, em, er, ma, me, pa, pe, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-m-p-r-v"
	+1 letter: revamps, vampers, vampire.
	+2 letters: primeval, revamped, revamper, vampires.
	+3 letters: primavera, revampers, revamping, verapamil.
	+4 letters: imperative, improvable, permeative, primevally, verapamils.
	+5 letters: comparative, depravement, imperatives, overpayment, overprogram, premedieval, semiprivate.
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