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revolutionize


verb (used with object), rev·o·lu·tion·ized, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·ing.

  1. to bring about a revolution in; effect a radical change in: to revolutionize petroleum refining methods.
  2. to subject to a political revolution.

verb (tr)

  1. to bring about a radical change inscience has revolutionized civilization
  2. to inspire or infect with revolutionary ideasthey revolutionized the common soldiers
  3. to cause a revolution in (a country, etc)
v.

1797, “to cause to undergo a (political) revolution;” see revolution + -ize. Transferred sense of “to change a thing completely and fundamentally” is first recorded 1799. Related: Revolutionized; revolutionizing.

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