revise
verb/rɪˈvaɪz/
/rɪˈvaɪz/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they revise | /rɪˈvaɪz/ /rɪˈvaɪz/ |
| he / she / it revises | /rɪˈvaɪzɪz/ /rɪˈvaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple revised | /rɪˈvaɪzd/ /rɪˈvaɪzd/ |
| past participle revised | /rɪˈvaɪzd/ /rɪˈvaɪzd/ |
| -ing form revising | /rɪˈvaɪzɪŋ/ /rɪˈvaɪzɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] revise something to change your opinions or plans, for example because of something you have learned
- I can see I will have to revise my opinions of his abilities now.
- The government may need to revise its policy in the light of this report.
- I realised that I would have to revise my life plan.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- drastically
- extensively
- heavily
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- be forced to
- have to
- be necessary to
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- from
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- [transitive] revise something to change something, such as a book or an estimate, in order to correct or improve it
- a revised edition of a textbook
- I'll prepare a revised estimate for you.
- This revised version of his play has only two acts.
- They should create a revised marketing plan.
- revise something up/down We may have to revise this figure upwards.
- The growth forecast has been revised down.
- revise something (from something) (to something) Of the original 200, that was revised to 100, only about 50 people showed up.
Extra Examples- Sales forecasts will have to be revised downwards/downward.
- The estimate for the building work had to be revised upwards.
- The figure has now been revised from $1 million to $2 million.
- The text has been quite radically revised.
- Have you got the revised edition of this textbook?
- The procedures are continually revised—it is very difficult to keep up with the latest version.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- drastically
- extensively
- heavily
- …
- be forced to
- have to
- be necessary to
- …
- from
- to
- for
- …
- [intransitive, transitive] (British English) to prepare for an exam by looking again at work that you have done
- I can't come out tonight. I have to revise.
- revise for something I spent the weekend revising for my exam.
- revise something I'm revising Geography today.
Extra ExamplesTopics Educationb1- I can't come out tonight—I'm revising.
- She's revising for her exams at the moment.
- Have you revised geography yet?
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- drastically
- extensively
- heavily
- …
- be forced to
- have to
- be necessary to
- …
- from
- to
- for
- …
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘look again or repeatedly (at)’): from French réviser ‘look at’, or Latin revisere ‘look at again’, from re- ‘again’ + visere (intensive form of videre ‘to see’).
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