renovate

Definition

Examples

The downtown branch will close for two weeks while the lobby is being thoroughly renovated.

Word Family

Synonyms

• refurbishmake brighter and prettier
• remodeldo over, as of (part of) a house
• upgradean upward slope or grade (as in a road)

Collocations

• Easy renovate the kitchen
  to renovate the kitchen, meaning to restore to a previous or better condition
• Medium renovate the main office building lobby
  to renovate the main office building lobby, meaning to restore to a previous or better condition
• Hard renovate dilapidated public housing infrastructure
  to renovate dilapidated public housing infrastructure, meaning to restore to a previous or better condition
• Very Hard sympathetically renovate the heritage estate
  describing sympathetically renovate the heritage estate (with respect to the sympathetic nervous system)