verb (used with object)
- to renovate, redo, or revise: We’ve decided to revamp the entire show.
noun
- an act or instance of restructuring, reordering, or revising something; overhaul: a revamp of the nation’s foreign policy.
verb (tr)
- to patch up or renovate; repair or restore
noun
- something that has been renovated or revamped
- the act or process of revamping
1850, from re- “again” + vamp (v.) “patch up, replace the upper front part of a shoe.” An earlier verb was new-vamp (1630s). Modern use is typically figurative. Related: Revamped; revamping.