RENEW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does renew mean? 

• RENEW (verb)
  The verb RENEW has 2 senses:

1. reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new

2. cause to appear in a new form

  Familiarity information: RENEW used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RENEW (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they renew    ... he / she / it renews   
Past simple: renewed   
Past participle: renewed   
-ing form: renewing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

regenerate; renew

Context example:

They renewed their membership

Hypernyms (to "renew" is one way to...):

re-create (create anew)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "renew"):

replace (substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected))

freshen up; refurbish; renovate (make brighter and prettier)

revamp (to patch up or renovate; repair or restore)

remold; remould; retread (give new treads to (a tire))

renovate; restitute (restore to a previous or better condition)

freshen; refresh (make (to feel) fresh)

revitalise; revitalize (give new life or vigor to)

regenerate; rejuvenate; restore (return to life; get or give new life or energy)

modernise; modernize; overhaul (make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to)

reconstruct; restore (return to its original or usable and functioning condition)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

renewal (the act of renewing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to appear in a new form

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

reincarnate; renew

Context example:

the old product was reincarnated to appeal to a younger market

Hypernyms (to "renew" is one way to...):

regenerate; rejuvenate; restore (return to life; get or give new life or energy)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Renewed hope followed renewed effort: it shone like the former for some weeks, then, like it, it faded, flickered: not a line, not a word reached me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Again we saw the dim silhouette of a crouching man and the whisk of the small flame across the window as the signals were renewed.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meantime we can only renew our interrupted slumbers.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“My dear,” said Mr. Micawber, leading her towards me, “here is a gentleman of the name of Copperfield, who wishes to renew his acquaintance with you.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My provision of the salt, which had never been renewed since the date of the first experiment, began to run low.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Would you, in short, have renewed the engagement then?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

So, on her renewing her promise to call me if she should want anything, I lay on the sofa, and forgot all about everything.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A specialized, self-renewing cell in the bone marrow that has the capacity to differentiate into a cell with a particular function, but especially a myeloid progenitor cell.

(Multipotent Bone Marrow Stem Cell with Wide Myeloid Potential, NCI Thesaurus)

Glands of Lieberkuhn renew the lining of the intestine and make mucus.

(gland of Lieberkuhn, NCI Dictionary)

When I was otherwise quite restored to health, the sight of a chemical instrument would renew all the agony of my nervous symptoms.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)